{"id":37721,"date":"2015-01-08T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37721"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T06:28:42","slug":"palace-responds-to-reports-on-spike-in-hiv-aids-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/08\/palace-responds-to-reports-on-spike-in-hiv-aids-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace responds to reports on spike in HIV-AIDS cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9516\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_175229834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9516\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_175229834.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"470\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_175229834.jpg 470w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_175229834-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said yesterday that the government is \u201cnot lacking in the campaign against HIV,\u201d even as he voiced the alarm of the Palace over the rising number of cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda said that the Department of Health (DOH) should explain why the cases of HIV and AIDS have risen, despite efforts and awareness campaign to curb the incidence of HIV and AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are measures undertaken to ensure the prevention of HIV. Unfortunately, those who engage in certain activities, some of them don\u2019t seem to follow\u2026 the safe way of doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH earlier revealed that just under 500 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded in November 2014; 28-percent higher than in November 2013.<br \/>\nOf 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said yesterday that the government is \u201cnot lacking in the campaign against HIV,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721","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=37721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}