HIV-AIDS

Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the most alarming, the HIV-AIDS problem in the Philippines is now pegged at five.

MANILA, Philippines — Mandaluyong City Mayor Benjamin Abalos on Monday said he has asked call center companies to have their employees undergo lectures on HIV and AIDS.

MANILA, Philippines – A member of the Quezon City council is seeking stricter monitoring and testing of men and women working as night club entertainers in the city following reports of rising cases of sexually transmitted diseases.

MANILA, Philippines—On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most alarming, the HIV-AIDS problem in the Philippines is now pegged at five.

MANILA, Philippines—On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most alarming, the HIV-AIDS problem in the Philippines is now “five nationally.”

The Government of Sweden is extending an additional SEK35,000,000 (about $5 million) to an Asian development Bank (ADB)-administered trust fund, which is helping combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

MANILA, Philippines – One hundred and 12 Filipinos tested positive for HIV in November, up 40% from the 80 reported cases in November last year, according to the HIV and AIDS Registry of the Department of Health (DOH).

WHILE the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Asia was already tagged as “largely stable” as of 2009, a United Nations agency report named the Philippines as among the exceptions as the prevalence of the disease grew five times to 8,700 from just 1,700 in 2001. There are around 4.9 million people living…

THE Philippine National AIDS Council and its partners have launched a campaign to stop the spread of the dreaded disease following reports that one Filipino is infected with HIV every five hours, or five new cases per day.

MANILA, Philippines –  The multi-sector Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) is expecting the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country to reach 46,000 by 2015 if no effective intervention measures will be implemented soon.

LONDON – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the United Kingdom have differing opinions on a mandatory HIV/AIDS test the government may consider as a requirement for every Filipino planning to work abroad.

As part of the World AIDS Day celebration, Department of Health (DOH) HIV – AIDS Coordinator Myrna Alaba briefed department heads and city hall employees of Dumaguete that Central Visayas is second in terms of number of HIV-AIDS cases in the Philippines.

OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines — City health officers here have stated that this city has not registered a single human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patient in the last three years.

CEBU, Philippines – With the sudden increase in the number of persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the Department of Health (DOH) 7 is organizing a continuous information dissemination regarding the disease.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 7, 2010) � Philippine health officials have raised the alarm over the rising cases of HIV or the human immunodeficiency virus in northern Mindanao.

MANILA, Philippines – Congress should investigate the rising number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country, a party-list lawmaker said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid the reported surge in new HIV cases, lawmakers want to review implementation of the 12-year-old Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act.

MANILA, Philippines – Parañaque Mayor Florencio Bernabe has been cited by the Local Government Academy for the city’s efforts to fight and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 1.54 million people in the ASEAN region have been infected with the HIV virus as of end 2009 from 1.58 million in 2007.

MANILA, Philippines – Not everyone is aware of the “Philippine Aids Prevention and Control Act of 1998,” which was enacted specifically to protect the right of persons living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and to prevent the further spread of the disease.

MANILA, Philippines – One of 10 HIV patients does not undergo anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to suppress progression to AIDS, the Department of Health said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The report of more than 1,000 cases of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who tested positive for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) will be investigated to determine how the workers contracted the disease.

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Thursday asked government agencies and concerned groups to help raise HIV awareness among overseas Filipino workers (OFW) amid the growing number of them infected with the deadly disease.

Fewer people are dying because of AIDS but the challenges remain, said Joseph Deiss, President of the United Nations General Assembly (UN-GA) on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Discrimination against sufferers of AIDS in the Philippines hampers efforts to curb the spread of the disease, said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).   

Manila – People with HIV/AIDS suffer from stigmatization and discrimination in the Philippines, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The country will have the fifth blueprint of its anti-HIV/AIDS campaign in the wake of the changing landscape of the epidemic, an official of the multi-sector Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) said yesterday.

Women infected with the HIV face discrimination and inadequate legal protection particularly in the Asian region, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said on Tuesday after a series of consultations on the Millennium Development Goals. “A brief paper emanating from meetings with select groups of HIV-positive women in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and India…

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Health (DOH) has assured potential blood recipients that blood banks are clean and safe from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Move targets HIV-hit overseas workers. Manila: The government has expanded its health insurance scheme to cover Aids following reports that the number of overseas Filipino workers with the disease has been increasing, a top official has told Gulf News.