{"id":13065,"date":"2014-06-02T01:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2014-06-02T01:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:48:31","slug":"philippines-to-take-specific-actions-against-hivaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/02\/philippines-to-take-specific-actions-against-hivaids\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines to take specific actions against HIV\/AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13109\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13109\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine government has come up with specific action programs to prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus infection\/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV\/AIDS), a senior government official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health&#8217;s (DOH&#8217;s) specific action programs include targeted education campaign and behavioral intervention, diagnosis and treatment of sexually-transmitted infections, voluntary HIV testing and counseling, managing tuberculosis among people with HIV, provision of anti-retroviral drugs, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and Philippine Health Insurance outpatient HIV package, said Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. in an interview with a state-run radio station.<\/p>\n<p>By implementing these program, the government aims to have a prevalence of less than 66 HIV cases per 100,000 population by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the latest data, Coloma said that in April this year, there were 393 new HIV cases, 96 percent were males with median age of 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reported modes of transmission were sexual contact and needle sharing among drug users. And males having sex with other males (84 percent) was the predominant type of sexual transmission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine government has come up with specific action programs to prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,95],"tags":[3664,3075],"class_list":["post-13065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news-ph","tag-aids","tag-hiv","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}