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HON. BERNADETTE “BH” HERRERA-DY                        
Bagong Henerasyon Party-list
Chair, Committee on Women & Gender Equality

SENATE ASKED TO EXPEDITE PENDING

ANTI-HIV-AIDS BILL AS 549 MILLENNIALS TEST POSITIVE FOR HIV

More and more of the new generation of Filipinos, aged 24 and younger, are getting infected with HIV-AIDS.

New figures just released by the DOH show that in January and February this year 549 young Filipinos tested positive for HIV, and 79 of them are aged 10 to 19. Total reported cases for these two months were 1,892 and 304 of them were already at the advanced stages of HIV-AIDS when they were tested.

I am alarmed by these new data.

We need the new law on the government’s program on HIV-AIDS as soon as possible. The House has approved its bill on the matter. It would really help if the Senate version makes progress. Perhaps the DOH can ask the Senate Committee on Health how the process can be expedited. Perhaps some senators have specific concerns the DOH can clarify.

We need a more aggressive implementation of the DOH’s HIV-AIDS interventions and of the Reproductive Health Law.

We need these programs to connect with Filipinos families, especially the children, teenagers, and young adults. 

HIV-AIDS is clearly and squarely a public health issue. It requires a compassionate approach to HIV patients and to people at high risk of getting HIV because of sharing of needles and unsafe practices during transactional sex, male-to-male sex. (END)

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