{"id":138909,"date":"2017-12-13T04:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138909"},"modified":"2017-12-13T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:12:22","slug":"sex-for-money-results-to-more-filipinos-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/sex-for-money-results-to-more-filipinos-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex for money results to more Filipinos with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paid sex is seen to be the top cause of why Filipinos mostly men contract human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.<\/p>\n<p>There are 91 Filipinos nationwide infected with HIV, according to the report of the Department of Health\u2019s HIV aids registry of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>HARP\u2019s report shows those who were infected are mostly male with ages ranging from 16 &#8211; 54 years.<\/p>\n<p>There are fifty-five cases of males acquiring HIV by paying for sex, excluding one, while the other twenty-four males admitted to have gotten the virus after getting paid for sex.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, eleven males and one female were infected after engaging in both.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Asia Pacific region, Philippines has the record of being the country with the fastest growing HIV cases.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the HIV spread, the government\u2019s health department is currently giving free Antiretroviral medicine to those who are HIV positive and other out-patients services to a maximum\u00a0 of P30,000 per person annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/\u00a028 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paid sex is seen to be the top cause of why Filipinos mostly men contract human immunodeficiency virus or HIV. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138909","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}