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Tag: AIDS

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, doctors HAVE NOT announced cure for HIV, AIDS

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 24, 2019 7:59 PM

    The headlines are false.

    AIDS, hiv

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are condoms just for birth control?

    By Vera Files  |  Jan 25, 2017 7:05 AM

    Comedian-turned-senator Vicente Sotto III thinks condoms are solely for contraception. Invoking science, he said a condom does not block the entry of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into one’s system.

    AIDS, Condom, Contraception, DOH, hiv, Seguerra, sotto, WHO

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Women with HIV: The silent casualties

    May 31, 2014 6:00 PM

     By DIANA G. MENDOZA    DOLZURA. Esther. Kathy. Sarah Jane. The country’s first reported case of AIDS in 1984 was an unidentified male, but by this list of names alone, it was the females who gave a public face to HIV and AIDS in the Philippines. The first wave of HIV infections recorded in the […]

    AIDS, hiv

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Remembering those who died of AIDS

    May 27, 2014 10:14 PM

        By PATRICK KING PASCUAL AS of May this year, 966 Filipinos have already died of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) since 1984. To remember those who had passed on because of the AIDS pandemic, members of the people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) community and support groups, organizations and foundations held a candlelight […]

    AIDS, PLHIV

  • Categories Top Stories

    AIDS education should be beyond World AIDS Day

    Dec 01, 2013 10:03 PM

      By PATRICK KING PASCUAL The first day of December is World’s AIDS Day. People observe World’s AIDS Day remembering the people who have lost their lives because of HIV and AIDS. Remembering means learning about the virus and the disease. HIV stands for the human immunodeficiency virus that infects human being and leads to […]

    AIDS, hiv, World AIDS Day

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