HIV/AIDS

DISEASE
A Closer Look at HIV/AIDS and the
Philippine Scenario
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE DISEASE
01 04 PREVENTION OF HIV
What is AIDS?

MODES OF HIV/AIDS IN THE

02 TRANSMISSION 05 PHILIPPINES

ACTIVITIES
03 GOVERNMENT ACTION 06
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1
ABOUT
THE
DISEASE
Acquired
Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS)
• caused by the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) that attacks and causes severe
damage to the body's immune system.
ABOUT THE DISEASE
 ABOUT THE DISEASE
How is AIDS primarily transmitted?
 ABOUT THE DISEASE
How is AIDS primarily transmitted?

Contact with infected Unprotected Genital Mother to unborn

blood Sex child
 ABOUT THE DISEASE
How is AIDS primarily transmitted?

Breastfeeding Sharing A Needle With An

Infected Person
CURE FOR HIV/AIDS?
 CURE FOR HIV/AIDS?

There is no known cure for HIV/AIDS.

But modern medicine through the early use of retroviral drugs, can radically delay the onset of
its full progression.
HIV Infection: 3 Main Stages

Acute Infection

Clinical Latency

Full-blown AIDS
 PATHOLOGY

Common bacteria, yeast, parasites, and viruses that usually do not cause serious diseases
in people with healthy immune systems can turn deadly for people with AIDS.

As the immune system breaks down along with the progression of the
disease, the affected individual becomes susceptible to life-threatening
infections.
 PATHOLOGY
Among the most common AIDS-alerting symptoms include a specific type of pneumonia
called pneumocystosis that affects 40% of AIDS patients and Koposi’s sarcoma,
a type of cancer characterized by lesions that appear on the upper body and face.

Without specialized treatment, people with HIV develop AIDS within 10

years.
SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE

swollen lymph nodes

weight loss

recurring respiratory tract

infections

diarrhea
 Modes Of Transmission
PREVALENCE
• Blood, semen, and breastmilk of infected
people.

• It is not spread easily like colds or flu and it

cannot be spread by saliva alone. 21,8%
34,6%
• In the Philippines, 93% of those diagnosed
with HIV acquired it as a result of sexual
contact. 10,9%
32,7%
 Transmission

Sexual Contact Transfusion of

Sharing of noodles with
Contaminated Blood
people infected with HIV

breastfeeding
Shared blood circulation between an infected Pregnant
woman and her unborn baby
 Rapid Rise In Cases

Young Urban Professionals

Like Call Center Agents

easily engage in casual sex, after finding like-minded partners on social networking sites on the
Internet.
Prevention
of HIV
 “There is a need for aggressive HIV/AIDS
information and awareness programs at the
community level, as well as sexual education at
the school level, to reduce high-risk behavior
and practices..”

-HEALTH OFFICIALS
 DOs and DONTs

● Safer Sex by using condoms if ● Casual Sex

one cannot abstain.
● wearing protective clothing,
masks, and goggles.
● anti-viral medications during
and after the pregnancy.
● HIV-infected women are also
advised to bottle-feed .
● Illicit drugs
● Sharing needles
● Sharing syringes
● Contact with bloods and
fluids
● Breastfeed
HIV/AIDS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• Philippines is classified as a low HIV-
prevalence country with current statistics
showing that less than 0.1 percent 0f the
adult population have been reported as
HIV-positive.
 HIV/AIDS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• Latest report dated March 2013 from the
Department of Health (DOH) AIDS Registry of
the Philippines listed 12,791 people living
with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
 HIV/AIDS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• However, this same report noted that from an
average of nine new cases of HIV/AIDS a day
in 2012, the DOB registered 12 new
cases daily in the first quarter of 2013.
 Government Action

1982 PNAC PNAC Members

• Philippine National AIDS 17 government agencies:
Council (PNAC) • Local governments
• Country’s highest • 2 Houses of the legislature
HIV/AIDS policy-making • 7 non-government organizations
body (NGOs)
• An associagion of PLWHA
Poster/Slogan-Making

1. Design and create a poster promoting

HIV/AIDS awareness among teenagers.

2. Include vital info that one needs to

know about the disease and its
prevention.
THANK
YOU!
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