infected needles among people who inject drugs at 1 percent (138) and mother to child transmission at 0.26 percent (35). contracted through sexual contact. By December 2019, 35 cases of pregnant women living with HIV have been reported. Of the 12,778 who tested positive for HIV in 2019, 1,668 or 13 percent acquired the virus through transactional sex. Apart from those engaging in transactional sex, the infection rate among OFWs was also noteworthy at seven percent (931) of new HIV infections in 2019. Of these OFWs, 93 percent or 200 are males and almost all of the cases were With the continuous increase of HIV cases in the country, the National AIDS and STD Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP) advanced its efforts in terms of prevention, testing, and treatment. To achieve the 2019 targets for the HIV/AIDS response in the country, the DOH, through the National AIDS and STD Prevention and Control Program (NACPCP), designed high impact prevention, testing and treatment interventions for key affected populations to achieve Zero new infections, Zero discrimination and Zero AIDSrelated deaths. These interventions focused on accelerating the reduction of barriers to access and enhance governance to ensure efficient, effective and sustainable delivery of quality HIV prevention, testing and treatment services. 3. Implementing a national condom strategy through PNAC; 4. Providing support to Community Based Organization (CBO) managed community centers; Among the targeted individuals were Men having Sex with Men (MSM); Transgender Women (TGW); People Who Inject Drugs (PWID); Female Sex Workers (FSW); Young Key Population (YKP); and Women-at-Risk or those who are pregnant, or are mothers, female partners of PWIDs, or female partners of MSM. Understanding that prevention is pivotal in HIV/ AIDS/STD transmission, DOH took on aggressive efforts to prevent new infections. These included the following: 1. Lobbying to the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) for the implementation of the HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018; 5. Intensifying the TB-HIV service package; and 6. Lobbying with the LGUs thru PNAC to increase local budget allocations on HIV and related expenditures. To promote HIV testing among the targeted individuals, DOH scaled up its Viral Load Testing coverage, expanded the implementation of the Rapid HIV Diagnostic Algorithm (rHIVda), integrated HIV screening in the services offered by the Rural Health Units (RHUs); and expanded Community-Based HIV screening through partnerships with CBOs. In order to encourage People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHAs) to undergo treatment, DOH introduced a safer Anti-Retroviral (ARV) Regimen; improved access to treatment hubs; ensured consistent availability of ARV drugs in the facilities; and engaged the services of case managers. 2. Intensifying campaigns to promote the use of condoms, advocate testing and disseminate relevant information to KAPs; 77 2019 Annual Report Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012