HIV-AIDS

By: Philippines News Agency, June 22, 2016, http://interaksyon.com/article/129398/doh-unicef-pick-5-pilot-areas-for-hiv-aids-prevention-program-for-youth ILOILO CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) and Unicef selected five highly urbanized cities in the country as pilot areas for HIV-AIDS program, especially for young people.

By: Jocelyn R. Uy, @inquirerdotnet, Philippine Daily Inquirer, http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/790351/alarmed-by-rise-govt-vows-to-end-hiv-by-30 THE PHILIPPINE government has committed to the United Nations to end the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in the country by 2030 as it continues to improve mechanisms that would allow easier access of most-at-risk populations to testing, counseling and anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 2,500 Filipinos have acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after paid sex, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

About two decades ago, former president Fidel V. Ramos gifts the Asia Pacific HIV community with an HIV law MANILA, Philippines – When the Philippines passed the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Act in 1998, it was celebrated as a pioneering law that primarily aimed to protect the rights of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and…

The efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS are painfully slowly gaining ground. Is it because sex is so good victims can’t resist engaging in it without protection? Is it because people who have them are too shamed to reveal they “have it”?

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MANILA – Globally, new HIV infections have been falling in recent years, but in the Philippines, HIV infection rates have consistently risen at alarming rates.

New infections in the country have skyrocketed, even as they’re declining worldwide. Cebu City, one of the hardest-hit areas, is struggling to control the drug use that’s spreading the virus. CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES—The dealer’s hands move quickly as he dispenses small vials from the waistband of his shorts, his front pockets bulging from the weight…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) yesterday expressed concern over the rising cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, saying that this threatens the blood supply.

MANILA, Philippines – The Asia-Pacific region is facing a “hidden epidemic” of HIV among adolescents with around 220,000 infected teens, according to a new report of the Asia-Pacific Inter-Agency Task Team on Young Key Populations.

The Philippines is experiencing a fast growing HIV epidemic among key populations, particularly men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and freelance sex workers. A programme review of the health sector response to HIV reported that the current response is insufficient to convert the rising epidemic.

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Search for people at risk crucial amid ‘high-level HIV epidemic’ in Cebu IN 2011, the Philippines adopted the “Asean Declaration of Commitment: Getting to Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero Aids-Related Deaths.” This, after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (Asean) first regional report on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) revealed that HIV affected…

The number of Filipinos afflicted with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is expected to increase fivefold and reach over 130,000 in the next seven years, the Department of Health (DOH) warned.

World AIDS Day is a time to celebrate progress and remember that there is still much to be done, says UNDP Administrator Helen Clark MANILA, Philippines – The spotlight is on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) on Tuesday, December 1 as different groups around the world commemorate the World AIDS…

The Philippines is one of the only nine countries in the world with increasing HIV cases, and the number of new cases has been rising alarmingly.

Department of Health (DOH) spokesperson Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy on World AIDS Day revealed that unprotected penetrative sex is still the leading cause of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the Philippines.

Giving syringes to drug users to stop spread of HIV prickly issue IN EARLY 2014, Dr. Alice Utlang started work at the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap) at the Cebu City Health Department building. A curious sight immediately met Cosap’s new executive director: the long line of people outside the CebuPlus Association…

MANILA, Philippines – More children and young people are getting infected with human immunodefiency virus (HIV), the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

16% of male inmates in Cebu City Jail have HIV Joel (not his real name) did not react when a health professional told him he had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids). The injecting drug user just casually returned to his cell at the Cebu…

NEW YORK — The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years, most of them having acquired the disease when they were infants, according to new data released Friday by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Nov. 26 (PIA) — Despite massive efforts, the cases of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the country have continued to rise, a health official here said.

SINCE Charlie Sheen, 50, star of the hit TV series “Two and a Half Men,” revealed for the first time on November 17, 2015 in his interview on TODAY with Matt Lauer, that he had tested positive for HIV infection 4 years ago, this scary and eventually deadly virus is once again in the spotlight.

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).

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.

Lawmakers threw yesterday all support to the P1-billion funding allocated by the Aquino administration in the next year’s proposed national budget to curb growing cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the country.

MANILA – The government budget to treat HIV/AIDS cases will breach the P1 billion mark next year, “the price the Philippines has to pay for reportedly having one of fast growing HIV epidemics in the world,” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said Saturday.

What can the Filipino public do to help curb the rising HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines? MANILA, Philippines – The final Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report released by the United Nations (UN) in July 2015 showed that globally, new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections declined by about 40% between 2000 and 2013.

Part 2 of 2 Last Thursday, we published the first part of our interview with The SHIP Foundation’s medical director Dr. Katerina Leyritana and physician Dr. Khaled Alim on the current state of HIV in the Philippines, particularly the underlying issues. Today, we are continuing what we started. Here is the rest of that eye-opening…

AIDS and mental illnesses are among the diseases getting closer attention from health ministers attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Cebu City. “Mental illness, up until quite recently a silent but insidious chronic disease, is now recognized, at least through efforts in our region, as a priority that can and should be…