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The first case of HIV infection in the Philippines was reported in January 1984. [4] In December 2018, the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, was passed. [5] The law repealed the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, and made health services for HIV/AIDs more accessible to Filipinos. [6]
Sarah Jane Salazar, born Marissa Reynon (1975 – June 11, 2000), was a Filipino AIDS activist and educator and the second Filipino to go public with HIV at age 19 in 1994. [1] The first was Dolzura Cortez.
Lagman explained that "Globally, the new number of reported cases of HIV infections and deaths has dropped by nearly 20 percent. It is therefore both ironic and tragic that the Philippines' trajectory is towards the other direction. Our country's HIV/AIDS statistics have increased by 30 percent!" [45] Primary among the means is distribution of ...
Ma. Dolzura Cortez (died 1992) was a Filipino AIDS victim. She was the first Filipino with AIDS to publicly discuss her life and her experience living with HIV/AIDS. [1] [2] Cortez responded to a newspaper ad looking for a person living with HIV/AIDS who was willing to have their life serialized in print and later developed into a movie.
[4] [5] [6] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2023, HIV/AIDS had killed approximately 40.4 million people, and approximately 39 million people were infected with HIV globally. [4] Of these, 29.8 million people (75%) are receiving antiretroviral treatment. [4] There were about 630,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2022. [4]
HIV and AIDS [ edit ] UNICEF is supporting the Philippine government's HIV response by gathering data and strategic information, advocating for laws that are responsive to the needs of children and young people, providing life skills and leadership training to adolescents, and helping the government, NGOs, and youth networks improve service ...
HIV/AIDS in the Philippines This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 07:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In January 2019, she spearheaded the passage of the HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, which expanded access to HIV services and testing, earning praise from the World Health Organization. [85] She also filed a bill to legalize divorce in the Philippines, which garnered public support according to a Social Weather Stations survey. [86] [87]