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Advocates call for vigilance, prevention vs. HIV
Philippine Information Agency
26 May 2021, 00:38 GMT+10
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, May 25 (PIA) Advocates raised the need for vigilance and prevention against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Department of Health Central Luzon Regional HIV Program Manager Joseph Michael Manlutac disclosed that 31 people are being diagnosed with HIV per day, making the cumulative cases at 85,000 as of March 2021. We need a whole-of-government, and a whole-of-society approach to combat HIV. We are in this together like our fight against COVID-19. All of us are vulnerable, he said.
Manlutac is quick to clarify that the figure is only 70 percent of the epidemic, and there are still 30 percent of missing cases, thus, underscored the need to strengthen HIV testing and awareness in the communities.