{"id":71966,"date":"2016-03-09T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71966"},"modified":"2025-01-13T00:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:17:13","slug":"doh-reports-804-hiv-cases-for-january-2016-highest-ever-since-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/09\/doh-reports-804-hiv-cases-for-january-2016-highest-ever-since-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH reports 804 HIV cases for January 2016, highest ever since 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA\u2014The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday reported a total of 804 new HIV cases for January this year or 50 percent higher compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

According to the latest HIV\/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (HARP) of the DOH, the new HIV cases recorded last January was the highest number of cases reported since 1984.<\/p>\n

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The DOH said the new figure shows an average of 27 HIV cases diagnosed in a day.<\/p>\n

The regions with the highest number of reported cases for January 2016 were: National Capital Region (NCR) with 370 (46 percent) cases, Region 4A with 130 (16 percent) cases, Region 7 with 71 (9 percent) cases, Region 3 with 60 (7 percent) cases, and Region 11 with 36 (4 percent) cases.<\/p>\n

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Of the 804 new HIV cases in January, a total of 771 were acquired through sexual transmission, 33 through needle sharing among injecting drug users (IDU) and 10 percent or 84 cases are engaging in transactional sex.<\/p>\n

Transactional cases involve those who report that they regularly accept payment for sex.<\/p>\n

Eighty-nine percent of those transmitted through sexual contact were among males who have sex with males (MSM).<\/p>\n

Most cases or 97 percent were male.<\/p>\n

The median age was 28 years old (age range: 17 years-66 years).<\/p>\n

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The DOH further said that more than half belong to the 25-34 year age group while 28 percent were youth aged 15-24 years.<\/p>\n

Since 1984, there are already 31,160 HIV cases recorded in the country, including 2,646 AIDS cases and 1,594 deaths.<\/p>\n

In January alone, there were 64 reported deaths of which 60 were male and 4 female.<\/p>\n

The age group with the biggest proportion of cases has become younger: from 2001 to 2005, it was 35-49 years; from 2006 to 2010, it was 25-34 years; and from 2011 to 2016, it was 20-29 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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