For the month of September alone, close to 700 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded, increasing the number of cases for the year to almost 6,000, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
According to the data from the HIV/AIDS Registry of the Philippines, a total of 692 new cases of HIV was recorded last September, bringing the number of cases for the first eight months of the year to 5,901.
“This [692 cases] was 22 percent higher compared to the same period last year, which is 565,” the DOH-Epidemiology Bureau report noted, adding that of the 692 new cases, 45 have progressed already to full-blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
More than one-third or 270 new HIV cases in September came from the National Capital Region (NCR); followed by 128 in Calabarzon; 60 in Central Visayas; 60 in Central Luzon; and 38 in Davao Region.
Out of the 692 new cases in September, a total of 667 or 96.38 percent of the cases were acquired through sexual transmission, mostly from the men-having-sex-with-men (MSM) population that accounted for 577 cases or 87 percent. In addition, homosexual contact was responsible for 338 cases, followed by bisexual contact with 239 cases, and 90 cases from heterosexual contact.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/nearly-700-hiv-cases-recorded-in-september/#Wzr74RKD8DFDjeWU.99
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the 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
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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