{"id":37344,"date":"2015-01-05T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37344"},"modified":"2015-01-05T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:53:36","slug":"500-new-hiv-cases-documented-in-ph-in-nov-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/05\/500-new-hiv-cases-documented-in-ph-in-nov-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"500 new HIV cases documented in PH in Nov 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36805\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_220225162\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_220225162-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) bared yesterday that just under 500 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded in November 2014; 28-percent higher than in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 492 new cases of HIV infection documented by the DOH\u2019s National Epidemiology Center, two-thirds fall into the 15-24 age range.<\/p>\n<p>Majority \u2013 464, to be precise \u2013 of the cases were infected with the virus through sexual contact. Twenty-eight cases reported intravenous drug use as the source of infection.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH also reported that 40 of the cases had progressed to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and that there were 10 deaths among those with full-blown AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighty-three of the new HIV cases came from the National Capital Region, Region 4-A, Region 2 and Region 11,\u201d the DOH said.<\/p>\n<p>There are 22,018 cases of HIV and AIDS recorded since 1984. Over 5,000 of these were documented in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) bared yesterday that just under 500 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-health","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344","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=37344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}