BUTUAN CITY – Officials of the Department of Health (DoH) here are alarmed over the rising cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Caraga region.
“We’re alarmed over the increasing trends,” stressed DoH 13 director Dr. Jose R. Llacuna druing a press conference in a Butuan City’s hotel here on Wednesday.
“Impending epidemic is shaping up,” the region’s top health official said. In a data presented to media, 14 deaths were already recorded while 209 persons are afflicted with the dreaded disease.
Last year, 42 HIV-AIDS cases were recorded while 34 new cases have been registered since early this year up to May 2015, the DoH 13 record said. (Mike U. Crismundo)
Read more at http://www.tempo.com.ph/2015/10/16/caraga-hiv-aids-cases-rise/#wK787RttbthGvDAR.99
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
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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
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Reject Military!
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April – Month of Planet Earth
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