HIV/AIDS cases in the country has increased by more than 100 a month for the past 14 months, prompting the Department of Health (DOH) to reiterate its call against complacency towards the disease.
A report by the DOH’s National Epidemiology Center showed that last January alone, a total of 152 new HIV/AIDS cases were registered, six percent higher than the 143 cases recorded in January 2010.
This brought to 6,617 the total number of HIV cases in the country since January 1984. Of the number, 886 have developed into AIDS.
Dr. Gerard Belimac, DOH program manager for DOH’s National AIDS/Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control Program, said there are many reasons for the rising number of HIV cases in the Philippines.
“They are multi-factorial. Treatment and screening facilities may be more available now than before, so we see more cases,” Belimac said.
But he noted that HIV/AIDS is a “behavioral disease that requires behavioral change to control.”
“You cannot change people’s behavior easily. You cannot impose on them. Programs need sustainability and the support of all sectors of society.”
Belimac has urged private organizations to help the government in its education campaign to discourage the public from “risk-taking behavior” that may expose them to the AIDS virus. –Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star)
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International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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