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339 new human immunodeficiency virus cases recorded in February

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded 339 new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases last February, a few notches lower than the 380 recorded a month earlier.

According to the DOH–National Epidemiology Center (DOH-NEC), the February report was 24 percent higher compared to the same period last year at 274.

Out of the 339 new HIV cases, the DOH said 23 have been found to having progressed into full-blown acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Aids).

The new cases mentioned in the February 2013 Philippine HIV and Aids Registry report bring to 719 the new HIV cases this year with 48 of them already developed to full-blown Aids cases.

Since 1984, there have been 12,421 HIV cases in the country with Aids cases already numbering to 1,217.

All new HIV cases last February were acquired through sexual contact with 279 cases still coming from the males-having-sex-with male (MSM) accounting for 82 percent.

Homosexual contact resulted to 176 new cases, followed by bisexual contact with 103, and heterosexual contact with 60.

As for overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sector, it was also found to have contributed 45 new HIV cases with all coming from sexual contact.

The report detailed that there were 11 from heterosexual contact, 19 homosexual, and 15 bisexual, where OFWs acquired HIV. (HDT/Sunnex)

Source:
339 new human immunodeficiency virus cases recorded in February | Sun.Star

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List of Existing Collective Bargaining Agreements

COMPANY: JOLLIBEE FOODS CORPORATION

COMPANY ADDRESS 5/F, Jollibee Plaza Bldg., Emerald Avenue, Ortigas, Pasig

REGION: NCR-National Capital Region

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:FOOD CHAIN

NAME OF UNION:KILUSAN SA JOLLIBEE-KILUSAN-TUCP
BARGAINING AGENT

UNION ADDRESS: Tucp Pgea Cmpd., Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City

FEDERATION: Pambansang Kilusan ng Paggawa

SCOPE OF BARGAINING AGENT: Rank-and-file

REG. CERT. NO.: NCR-QCFO-40

DATE REGISTERED: 10/19/2007

EFFECTIVITY : 3/1/2007

EXPIRATION: 2/28/2012

WORKERS COVERED : 399

MALE : 239

FEMALE : 160

SOURCE BLR:

http://www.blr.dole.gov.ph/downloadable%20forms/ListofExistingCBA_June2011.pdf

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AIDS cases up in Northern Mindanao

By Abigail C. Malalis

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

THE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases recorded in Northern Mindanao have already reached to more than a hundred, an official from the Center for Health Department in Northern Mindanao (CHD-NMR) said.

Dr. David Mendoza, head of the Regional Epidemiology, Surveillance and Disaster Response Unit (RESDRU) of the Department of Health in Northern Mindanao, said his office recorded five new cases of persons having AIDS in January this year.

“We are expecting more cases,” Mendoza said with another unofficial cases being recorded again in February.

Mendoza said Northern Mindanao recorded at least 102 cases from 1991 until 2013 with Cagayan de Oro in Misamis Oriental registering the most cases. The region recorded its first case in 1991, Mendoza said.

“We had one mortality last year,” Mendoza added.
“The province of Bukidnon has seven cases, two in Camiguin, 19 in Lanao del Norte including Iligan City, 14 in Misamis Occidental including Ozamiz City, and 60 in Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro,” he said.

“It’s not your occupation that made you high-risk but your behavior,” Mendoza said.

Noel Palaypayon, HIV surveillance officer and Department Unit Manager of the National HIV Sentinel Surveillance, said that AIDS cases have been very low in the past 20 years but have doubled its infection rate in 2006 and have reached to a total of more than 13,000 cases from 1984 until 2012.

Palaypayon said it is becoming “fast and furious” with nine new cases per day last year compared to seven cases per day in 2011.

He said the country has recorded 12 AIDS cases in January 2013.

Records from the Philippine HIV/AIDS registry revealed that since 1984 up to January 2013, 12,082 HIV-positive cases have been recorded of which 10,888 or 90 percent are without obvious symptoms and 1,194 or 10 percent are AIDS cases.

“This has reached epidemic status already for the Philippines,” Palaypayon said.

The records also showed that more than 50 percent or 5,586 cases were recorded in the National Capital Region (NCR) followed by Calabarzon with 13 percent or 1,383; Central Luzon with 955 (9 percent); Central Visayas with 918 (8 percent); and Davao Regiom with 637 (6 percent).

From January to February 2013 alone, there are 395 new cases coming from the most at risk groups (Marps) including men having sex with men (MSM).

The highest number of infections among MSMs is from Metro Manila, though increasing infection rates were also noted in the cities of Angeles, Cebu, and Davao. One to three percent of MSM's were found to be HIV-positive by sentinel surveillance conducted in Cebu and Quezon cities in 2001, the data showed.

Another at-risk group is the injecting drug users (IDUs) in Cebu City who were found to be HIV-positive with 77 percent, it said. Sun.Star

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome cases up in Northern Mindanao | Sun.Star

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