Labor Day Statement of TUCP President / LSM Chair Democrito T. Mendoza

SOURCE: Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Labor Day Statement of TUCP President / LSM Chair Democrito T. Mendoza

SOURCE: Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Summary Report of TUCP President Democrito T. Mendoza for the TUCP 6th National Convention

Statement of TUCP President Democrito T. Mendoza in the Socio-Economic Summit

TUCP Statement on the WTO Review

Labor Day Statement of TUCP President / LSM Chair Democrito T. Mendoza

SOURCE: http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/category/resource-center/2001-materials/

DOH: 12 new HIV/AIDS cases per day

MANILA, Philippines - From an average of nine new cases of HIV/AIDS a day in 2012, the Department of Health (DOH) registered 12 new cases daily in January this year.

Health Assistant Secretary Eric Tayag said these 12 new cases daily are equivalent to 380 new cases reported to the DOH’s Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry in January 2013. Of these, 25 were already AIDS at the time of reporting.

“(This is) the most number of new cases per month since 1984 (when the registry started). The cumulative total is now at 12,082,” Tayag said.

The registry showed the 380 cases were 79 percent higher compared to the 212 cases recorded in January 2012. Eighty two percent of the cases involved males having sex with other males (MSM).

Tayag said they received information that MSM contact usually occurs at home. “They are not using protection. It’s bareback, no condom,” he described.

And despite the risk, those engaging in MSM are not keen on undergoing HIV testing because of the stigma and discrimination still associated with the disease.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/03/02/914843/doh-12-new-hiv/aids-cases-day

HIV and AIDS: Who Is Affected

HIV and AIDS can affect anyone. Worldwide, an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV or AIDS.¹ In the United States, more than a million people are infected with HIV.³ Many of these people do not know they are infected.

Since the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became widespread in 1996, the incidence of AIDS has decreased. Factors responsible for the decline in the incidence of new AIDS cases include:²

• Fewer people are becoming infected with HIV today than in the early 1980s.
• Improved treatments for HIV infection. HAART slows the rate at which HIV multiplies in the body. This helps keep a person's immune system healthy longer, which may slow the rate at which opportunistic diseases (such aspneumonia) develop.
• More effective treatments are available to prevent HIV-related infections.

Source: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/hiv_and_aids_who_is_affected-health/article_em.htm

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