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Morning

Everyone!
‘Unfinished Painting’
(1989) By Keith Haring
is a complete self-
portrait meant to appear
‘incomplete’.
The Philippines AIDS
Prevention Act of 1998
(REPUBLIC ACT OF 8504)
What is HIV and AIDS?
HIV
(HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS)
AIDS
(ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME)
HIV IS A VIRUS WHICH AIDS IS A MEDICAL CONDITION
ATTACKS IMMUNE SYSTEM (IMMUNE SYSTEM IS TOO
IN HUMANS WEAK TO FIGHT INFECTIONS)
Stages of HIV
Stages
When people with HIV
1 Acute
don’t get treatment, they
typically progress through
three stages. But HIV
treatment can slow or
prevent progression of the 2 Chronic
disease. With advances in
HIV treatment, progression
to Stage 3 (AIDS) is less
common today than in the
early years of HIV. 3 AIDS
How do you get HIV/AIDS?
It is primarily transmitted through unprotected
sexual intercourse with an infected person. Other
common modes of transmission include sharing
needles or syringes with an infected person,
receiving contaminated blood products or organ
transplants, and from an infected mother to her
child during childbirth or breastfeeding.
How do you know if you
have HIV/AIDS?
The only way to know if you have HIV is to get
tested. Knowing your HIV status helps you make
healthy decisions to prevent getting or
transmitting HIV.
What are the symptom?
Symptoms
1 fever
The disease spreads more
easily in the first few months 2 Rash
after a person is infected, but 7 diarrhea
many are unaware of their 3 Headache
status until the later stages. In 8 swollen
the first few weeks after being 4 Sore throat
infected people may not
experience symptoms. 5 Cough

6 Weight loss
The Philippines AIDS
Prevention Act of 1998
(REPUBLIC ACT OF 8504)
SEC. 1. Title
This Act shall be known as the "Philippine AIDS
Prevention and Control Act of 1998."
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policies
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) is a disease that recognizes no territorial, social,
political and economic boundaries for which there is no
known cure. The gravity of the AIDS threat demands
strong State action today, thus:
(a) The State shall promote public awareness about the
causes, modes of transmission, consequences, means of
prevention and control of HIV/ AIDS through a
comprehensive nationwide educational and information
campaign organized and conducted by the State. Such
campaigns shall promote value formation and employ
scientifically proven approaches,
(b) The State shall extend to every person suspected or
known to be infected with HIV/AIDS full protection of
his/her human rights and civil liberties.
Towards this end.
1. ( compulsory HIV testing shall be considered unlawful
unless otherwise provided in this Act;
2. the right of privacy of individuals with HIV shall be
guaranteed;
3. discrimination, in all its forms and subtleties, against
individuals with HIV or persons perceived or
suspected of having HIV shall be considered inimical
to individual and national interest, and;
4. provision of basic health and social services for
individuals with
5. HIV shall be assured.
1. The State shall promote utmost safety and universal
precautions in practices and procedures that carry the
risk of HIV transmission.
2. The State shall positively address and seek to eradicate
conditions that aggravate the spread of HIV infection,
including but not limited to, poverty, gender inequality,
prostitution, marginalization, drug abuse and ignorance.
3. The State shall recognize the potential role of affected
individuals in propagating vital information and
educational messages about HIV/ AIDS and shall utilize
their experience to warn the public about the disease.
Any questions?
Thank you for
listening!

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