By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
TAGAYTAY CITY -- Despite provisions in the controversial reproductive health bill that will educate teens about safe sex and responsible parenting, a health official said the measure is no panacea against two of the country’s ills.
By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE
Interaksyon.com
TAGAYTAY CITY -- Before President Benigno Aquino III ends his term in 2016, the HIV prevalence in the country would have gone up to four folds, said a Health department official Thursday.
A rare case of a Filipino male, who tested HIV positive 10 years ago in France and then was found HIV negative in his most recent testing in the Philippines this year, has puzzled the medical community and the Department of Health (DOH).
By IBARRA C. MATEO
HIV infections in the Philippines are “increasing at an alarming rate” especially among adolescents and this has been attributed to their increasing use of social media, according to the latest report of the Department of Health (DOH).
