{"id":169214,"date":"2018-07-03T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169214"},"modified":"2018-07-03T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:36:40","slug":"more-than-900-new-hiv-cases-recorded-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/03\/more-than-900-new-hiv-cases-recorded-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 900 new HIV cases recorded in April"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“There were 924 new HIV anti-body sero-positive individuals reported to the April 2018 HIV\/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (HARP),” according to a data from the Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology Bureau released Tuesday. (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— More than 900 newly-diagnosed cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded in the month of April.<\/p>\n

“There were 924 new HIV anti-body sero-positive individuals reported to the April 2018 HIV\/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (HARP),” according to a data from the Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology Bureau released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In comparison, the figure is higher than the 628 HIV cases reported in April 2017.<\/p>\n

Of the total cases for April 2018, 19 percent or 179 had clinical manifestations of having advanced HIV infection or acquired immunodeficiency deficiency syndrome (AIDS).<\/p>\n

The data also revealed that there were a total of 66 deaths due HIV\/AIDS. The data further showed that sexual contact remains to be the predominant mode of transmission among the 905 cases.<\/p>\n

A total of 774 individuals or 86 percent were under the males who have sex with males (MSM) category.<\/p>\n

Aside from sexual contact, another mode of transmission was needle sharing among injecting drug users, with 13 cases or 1 percent of the total number of cases.<\/p>\n

There was also one case of mother-to-child transmission while another five cases had no data on the mode of transmission, the HARP report said.<\/p>\n

The data also showed that one-third or 30 percent (282 cases) were diagnosed from the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n

It was followed by Calabarzon (18 percent, 164 cases); Central Luzon (13 percent, 117); Central Visayas (8 percent, 71); Davao Region (5 percent, 50); and Western Visayas (5 percent, 44).<\/p>\n

Since 1984 up to the present, the DOH recorded around 54,332 HIV cases.<\/p>\n

From the figure, around 5,700 progressed into AIDS cases while around 2,598 resulted to deaths.<\/p>\n

According to DOH, a person may die not because of HIV but due to “opportunistic infections” or complications which can occur to patients as they acquire HIV.<\/p>\n

The DOH has been providing anti-retroviral treatment among the patients as well as free testing at its HIV hubs and treatment centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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