Stigma is fuelling one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the Philippines

Jose Roel II Javarez was 22 when he was rushed to hospital on the brink of death — but he doesn’t know when he contracted the virus that drove him there.

Mr Javarez, who grew up in a village in the Philippines’ westernmost province of Palawan, started engaging in casual sex about the age of 13,…