THE Department of Health yesterday said the younger working population makes up the highest number of HVI cases in the Philippines.
But they do not necessarily come from the call center industry, said Dr. Gerard Belimac, director of the DOH-National AIDS/STI Prevention and Control Program, aiming to correct the misconception that the high risk of acquiring HIV is limited to the call center industry.
“Sa data natin, it’s really in the younger working population nakikitang common ito. It is not necessarily in the call center. They may be from call centers, they may be not,” said Belimac.
“It’s what you do. It’s not who you are,” he added.
Early this year, reports came out that workers of the call center industry are very prone to HIV transmission because of their work environment and peer pressure resulting in risky sexual behavior.
Based on the October 2010 DOH HIV/AIDS Registry report, 27 (26 percent) of the 104 new cases this month belong to the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket.
For the year 2010, 31 percent or 399 out of the 1,305 HIV cases so far belong to the youth sector.
On the overall, 1,123 out of the 5,729 HIV cases in the country recorded since 1984 belong to the younger population. – Gerard Naval, Manila Bulletin
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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against serious violations of protocols of
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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