US program marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.
The Quezon City Council has passed a measure that would protect workers infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the workplace, and discriminatory employers face revocation of their business permits and licenses.
The government needs to adopt an aggressive advocacy campaign to curb the rising number of people inflicted with HIV-AIDs. Dr. Enrique Tayag, assistant health secretary, in a visit here said a total of 380 new HIV cases have been recorded in January this year, the highest increase since the government began monitoring HIV-AIDS cases in 1984.
The Philippines posted its highest ever increase in the number of new HIV infections in January and the number is expected to increase even further in the near future, a Department of Health (DOH) official has said on Friday.
A national alliance of gay groups and a United Nations (UN) official on Saturday called on President Aquino and his Cabinet to voluntarily take an HIV-AIDS test to help dispel the stigma associated with routine testing for this disease.
A growing number of Filipinos have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a result of using injecting drugs with contaminated needles, according to Rep. Arnel Ty of the LPG Marketers’ Association (LPG-MA).
TACLOBAN CITY—The Department of Health in Eastern Visayas is alarmed by the increase of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome cases in the region. Four men, aged 26 to 36, died of AIDS from January to July this year, according to Boyd Cerro, DOH-8 regional sentinel nurse. He said that last year, the health department recorded no [...]
National Youth Commission chairman Leon Flores’ statement implying that a Reproductive Health law—which promotes artificial contraceptives like pills, condoms and intrauterine devices—would significantly slow the rise in teenage pregnancies and the spread of HIV-AIDS among sexually active youth, is naive if not downright irresponsible. Flores said the commission will continue to campaign for the passage [...]
The number of AIDS cases will rise to more than 30,000 in 2015 or five times the current number of cases, a health official said last week. Health Undersecretary Dr. Enrique Tayag cited figures from the National Epidemiology of the Philippines that showed 6,498 AIDS cases from 1984 to March 2011. In an AIDS seminar [...]
