VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, doctors HAVE NOT announced cure for HIV, AIDS
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are condoms just for birth control?
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.
Women with HIV: The silent casualties
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
Remembering those who died of AIDS
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 education should be beyond World AIDS Day
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
