While tuberculosis rates in the United States continue to fall, the disease still disproportionately infects Filipinos in one county in Northern California and possibly in other localities with high concentrations of Filipinos, a recent health survey revealed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged countries in the Western Pacific, including the Philippines, to do more in the fight against the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people.
The rate of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), has increased by more than 25 percent in the Philippines in the last decade, according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Let’s talk about sex. “Do we talk about sex? How many of us are openly talking about it,” Dame Carole Kidu, a member of the High Level Task Force for International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), asked members of parliament and civil society organizations from 13 Asian countries in a forum on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Wednesday.
It turns out that the Philippines is not exactly new to the milder forms of the virus that has killed many children in Cambodia.
It’s back to basics: Just wash your hands thoroughly and frequently, and observe strict personal hygiene to prevent the spread of the so-called “mysterious disease” that has already claimed the lives of at least 50 children in Cambodia.
Alarmed by the rising number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) turning up positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lawmaker has urged sexually active Filipino seamen to voluntarily undergo testing to safeguard their partners at home in the Philippines and curb the spread of the dreaded disease.
The Philippines has failed to stop the spread of HIV-AIDS, the head of a United Nations program on the dreaded disease reported Tuesday.
The United States government has reaffirmed its commitment to help eradicate tuberculosis in the Philippines as the country marked World TB Day on Saturday.
New HIV infections and deaths from AIDS-related illness are falling worldwide, except in the Philippines and Bangladesh, where the number of new HIV cases continues to rise.
JERUSALEM—Floating in the Dead Sea for just 20 minutes may help diabetics lower blood sugar levels, according to a study by Israeli researchers highlighted in Haaretz on Tuesday. The research was carried out by scientists from Ben Gurion University and Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, both in Israel’s Negev desert, the paper said. In the [...]
ROME—The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain was spreading in Asia. A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defenses of existing vaccines, is spreading in China and Vietnam, [...]
