Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:10:47 +0000
The Department of Health (DOH) has assured people afflicted with (HIV) that government has enough supply of anti-retroviral drugs.
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:03:59 +0000
South Korea’s human rights watchdog said a hospital’s choice to deny a medical checkup to an HIV-positive person was discriminatory.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000
KUALA LUMPUR — A teenager who donated blood without knowing he was HIV positive tried to commit suicide after finding out it caused a woman to contract the virus.
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Credit to Author: Niko Vorobjov| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:32:09 +0000
Moscow’s only harm reduction NGO has been given a potentially devastating fine for doing the work it’s meant to do.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:09:47 +0000
From January 1984 to September this year, the regions with the highest number of reported human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases were Metro Manila with 23,478 (40 percent of the total) cases, Calabarzon with 8,754 cases (15 percent) and Central Luzon with 5,366 cases (9 percent). — Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research
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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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