Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:55:02 +0000
Department of Health (DOH) acknowledged President Rodrigo Duterte for signing the HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, saying the law will support Filipinos suffering from the disease.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:58:45 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Thursday welcomed the enactment of the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, noting that the number of HIV and AIDS cases in the country has increased by 140 percent last year.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 06:23:57 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, Malacañang said Wednesday.
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Every three minutes, a girl between the ages of 15 and 19 is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, said a UN report Wednesday that warned of a “crisis” fuelled by gender inequality.
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Concerns over an HIV surge in countries where strict laws cause drug users to share virus-laced needles, were raised Monday at a world AIDS assembly in Amsterdam.
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An independent panel of experts on sexual harassment is being set up at UNAIDS after calls for the organization’s head to resign over his handling of harassment allegations.
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We went to a Texas border town battling a major HIV epidemic to meet the activists working to educate people about the virus.