{"id":197139,"date":"2019-01-10T02:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=197139"},"modified":"2019-01-10T02:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:33:45","slug":"doh-chief-lauds-signing-of-hiv-aids-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/10\/doh-chief-lauds-signing-of-hiv-aids-act\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH chief lauds signing of HIV-AIDS Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_197140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197140\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DOH-Secretary-Franciso-Duque-III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-197140\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DOH-Secretary-Franciso-Duque-III.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DOH-Secretary-Franciso-Duque-III.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DOH-Secretary-Franciso-Duque-III-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DOH-Secretary-Franciso-Duque-III-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duque said the law provides education and prevention programs for Persons Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLHIV). (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/photos\/a.157979910879936\/2293986253945947\/?type=3&amp;theater\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/\">Department of Health (Philippines)\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Franciso Duque III lauded on Thursday the signing of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) Act into law.<\/p>\n<p>Duque said the signing of the HIV-AIDS Act is &#8220;a huge step forward in responding to the growing HIV epidemic in the Philippines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mabibigyan na natin ng tamang suporta ang mga Pilipinong may\u00a0<\/em>HIV-AIDS.<em>\u00a0Kaya naman lubos ang aming pasasalamat kay Presidente Duterte sa pagbibigay niya ng prayoridad at aksyon laban sa\u00a0<\/em>HIV-AIDS (We can now provide appropriate support to Filipinos with HIV-AIDS. That&#8217;s why we have deep gratitude for President Duterte for giving priority and action against HIV-AIDS),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duque said the law provides education and prevention programs for Persons Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLHIV).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also enables minors 15 years of age to get tested for HIV,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act into law, five days before Christmas but only made the confirmation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the law\u2019s enactment and signing were \u201ctimely and relevant\u201d following a report from the DOH, which showed that the Philippines has the highest percentage relative to the increase of new HIV cases in the Asia-Pacific region from 2010 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo added the new law provides for the establishment of policies and programs to deliver proper treatment, care and support services to PLHIVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Franciso Duque III lauded on Thursday the signing of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired immunodeficiency &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":197140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197139","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=197139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}