Twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS – drugmaker

Associated Press 12/02/2024

It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against AIDS. The twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing HIV infections in a study of women, and results published Wednesday show it worked nearly as…

Mandaue City Jail: 17 PDLs or inmates have HIV

Mary Rose Sagarino 03/27/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — At least 17 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) or inmates in the Mandaue City Jail were positive of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Lawyer Jonathan Baltar, jail superintendent, said that 15 of the…

Group asks gov’t to implement comprehensive sex education

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQ 03/17/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Recent reports of adolescents contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have prompted a women’s rights advocacy group to call for implementing comprehensive sexual education (CSE) to help children and teenagers avoid sexually transmitted diseases. In…

PhilHealth assures PLHIV of health insurance coverage

PR 12/01/2022

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) offers a means for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) to have financial access to effective health care by covering outpatient HIV/AIDS treatment. PhilHealth initially came up with the Outpatient…

United front in fighting ‘silent pandemic’

Gerald Bloom - @inquirerdotnet 11/26/2022

It’s called the “silent pandemic” and kills more than AIDS and malaria combined. Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to human health. Already, it has had a hand in the deaths of millions, and the numbers could…

Rise of HIV cases in Cebu City worries city dad

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 11/25/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Rey Gealon has expressed concern over the increasing number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the city. Quoting a national report, Gealon said that Central Visayas has 8,407 newly…

HIV surge to 100,000 cases feared amid COVID pandemic

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer 02/08/2022

MANILA, Philippines—The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting services and treatments for other diseases, like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is projected to rise as a result, both directly and indirectly, of restrictions brought by the pandemic. According…

Santander town penalizes discrimination vs persons with HIV, AIDS, STI

Rosalie Abatayo 10/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The municipality of Santander in the southern tip of Cebu has taken steps to combat discrimination in school or at the workplace against persons suspected to be sufferers of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired…

LoveYourself Cebu fashion auction event gets two Miss Universes’ backing

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 07/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray expressed her support to LoveYourself Cebu’s upcoming charity event slated on July 6 in an event venue in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City.  A video of the 25-year-old Filipino-Australian…

Karencitta in Cebu on April 27 for LoveYourself White House launch

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebuana singer Karencitta will be back home in the Queen City of the South on Saturday, April 27, for a cause that is close to her heart. Karencitta, or Karen Ann Cabrera in…

PYC to focus on mental health, HIV awareness

Gerard Vincent Francisco 10/19/2018

  The Cebu Provincial Youth Commission (PYC) is set to spearhead information caravans on mental health and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) awareness in different barangays of the province. James Canoy, who serves as the president of PYC…

HIV cases up, AIDS cases go down in Cebu last year

Rosalie Abatayo 07/18/2018

Cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) went up in Cebu last year, more than double in 2016. Provincial Health Office HIV resource person Wilfredo Salgado Jr. said their records showed there were more than 700 HIV cases…

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