MSF says HIV drug deal on ice over pharma firm’s price secrecy
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday a deal aimed to bring long-term preventative HIV treatment to vulnerable populations was on ...
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UN: PH still high on HIV/AIDS list
The Philippines is among the top countries in the Asia Pacific where cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections have ...
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1,292 new HIV cases in Feb., 56 were teens, kids
The Department of Health (DOH) logged 1,292 HIV cases in February, with 56 teens and kids contracting the virus. Among ...
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HIV patients urged to get treatments
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is urging patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to avail of outpatient ...
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Doctors, nurses walk the runway to raise funds for HIV patients
Doctors and nurses at a Laguna-based medical facility have staged a fashion show to raise funds for patients afflicted with ...
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New WHO guidelines on HIV, hepatitis, and STIs
By Windie Khyla Pultam Some of the life-threatening diseases that the world has been grappling with are the same ones ...
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Amid COVID, Pinoys face HIV scourge
HIV remains a “silent epidemic” as Filipinos continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. In 2021, the ...
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29% of drug users have HIV—Defensor
At least 29 out of every 100 Filipinos who inject illegal drugs and who have themselves voluntarily tested for the ...
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Durex calls people to #ComeTogether against a new deadly pandemic
With over two years in lockdown brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is another pandemic that the public needs to ...
Read morePregnant women, kids not spared by HIV—Defensor
11The country’s raging human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has not spared pregnant women and children, Anakalusugan party-list Rep. Michael Defensor ...
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