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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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