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Peoples Tonight, Sept. 16, 2019, OFWs With HIV Seen To Surpass 7K Mark This Year PDF
Peoples Tonight, Sept. 16, 2019, OFWs With HIV Seen To Surpass 7K Mark This Year PDF
seen to surpass 7K
mark this year
to keep the vitus sup-
pressed, as long as diair-
nosed and remeilied earli.
OFWsnow reDresent 10
THE nurnber of ovetgeas percent of the agqreqate
Filipino workers (OFWS) 67,395 confkmeif cises
diagnosed ae human im- listed in tlrc National FtrV/
munodeficiency vitus AIDS Regisw as of Mav.
(Hfv,-positive i;
likety ro accordind ho 'B€rtiz.
Eurpass the zoo(tsmark'this The dFWs in the resis-
year, the ACTS-OFW Coa- trv worked abroad inside
lition of Oreanizationg the past five years, either
said vesterda;. on land or at sea, when
"T1re cumJlative no-- they were diagnosed HIV-
ber of OFWs confirmed as positive, Berdz said.
Hlv-positive could reach
more than 7,200 bv the end
of the year, at the'rate new 79c Q
cases aie beine discovered.',
said ACTgOFW chairman
Aniceto Bertiz IIL a former
conglessman,
From }anuarv to Mav this
year alone, a iotal of 444
newly confirmed HIV-Dosi-
tive OFWs were reooited.
up 21 percmr from ihe 36d
recorded in the sarne oeriod
in 201& accordinp to bertiz-
"All told, the iotal num-
ber of OFWs found livine
with HIV has reached 6.69U
since 1984 when the eovem-
ment first beqan iassive
surveillance ol the'virus.,,
added Bertiz.
"IiVe would urse rehlrn-
ing OFWS who sdD€ct fh,r
thEy may have acquired HIV
while wbrking abioad to get
thems€lves tested and tre;r-
ed early, so that thev can
contbui to live econoinicat-
ly productive and healthe
lives," Bertiz said.
HIV causes the Acouired
Immune Deficiencv'Svn
drome (AIDS), which te-
stroys the human bodv,s
natural abitity to fiqht off'al
kinds of bacterial. "virat anrt
fungal infections.
HIV still does not have
any known cure, but sus-
tained antiretroviral treat-
r{rent (A4T). heq bgltino$m