The UN Development Program said on Tuesday that it would help the Philippines fight rising HIV infections, which reached record monthly levels for the country this year.
“All the main ingredients for an epidemic are present in the country. First, HIV transmission through unprotected sex accounts for 89 percent of reported cases,” the agency said in a statement.
Condom use among the most at-risk, including homosexual men, female sex workers and their male clients, remained below 90 percent, it added.
Manila and the UN Development Program are on Thursday to launch a three-year program on “mitigating the negative impacts of HIV and AIDS on human development,” the organization said.
A record 89 new HIV cases were registered in May, bringing the total for 2009 to 322.
The government estimates that in 2007, there were 7,490 people in the Philippines living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, up from about 6,000 in 2002. — AFP
It’s women’s month!
“Support women every day of the year!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and Made-in-the-Philippines
Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
Mar 4— Employee Appreciation Day
Mar 15 — World Consumer Rights Day
Mar 18 — Global Recycling Day
Mar 21 — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mar 23 — International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
Mar 25 — International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mar 27 — Earth Hour
