{"id":159155,"date":"2018-04-07T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159155"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T16:22:36","slug":"ph-registers-871-new-hiv-cases-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/07\/ph-registers-871-new-hiv-cases-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"PH registers 871 new HIV cases in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157557\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-126137e39017f23451c6cb6c556c736125b3b5dc5b9de911ece2a78c4e6bcf87_full_5ab0c3494d1fb5_57956054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157557\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-126137e39017f23451c6cb6c556c736125b3b5dc5b9de911ece2a78c4e6bcf87_full_5ab0c3494d1fb5_57956054.jpg\" alt=\"FILE (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported more than 800 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) last February.<\/p>\n<p>According to the February 2018 HIV\/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (HARP) from the DOH\u2019s Epidemiology Bureau, a total of 871 new HIV cases were recorded nationwide during the second month of the year, bringing the total to 1,892 new HIV cases since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixteen percent (135 cases) had clinical manifestations of advanced HIV infection (WHO clinical stage 3 or 4) at the time of diagnosis,\u201d said the DOH report.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 22 deaths were recorded in February.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual contact remains the predominant mode of transmission comprising 841 cases or 97 percent, while 86 percent or 723 cases of newly-diagnosed infections involved males who have sex with males.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that about one-third or 32 percent (275 cases) were from the National Capital Region; followed by Calabarzon with 15 percent (132 cases); Central Visayas with 10 percent (86 cases); Central Luzon with 9 percent (79 cases); and Western Visayas with 8 percent (67 cases).<\/p>\n<p>Since 1984, the DOH has recorded 52,280 HIV cases in the country, including 5,336 with advanced infection, and 2,511 deaths.<em><strong>(<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8211;The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported more than 800 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) last February. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3664,3693,2401,3075],"class_list":["post-159155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aids","tag-department-of-health-2","tag-doh","tag-hiv","mauthors-leilani-junio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159155","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=159155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}