Kampanya para matulungan ang persons living with HIV, pinaigting pa ng DSWD-Caraga katuwang ang Butuan City Medical Center

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00:00 The Department of Social Welfare and Development or DSWD-CARAGA laid the government's program on Persons Living with HIV or PLHIV

00:10 which is also based on Republic Act No. 11166 or the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act.

00:16 According to Arnel B. Delgado, PLHIV focal person of DSWD-CARAGA,

00:22 Administrative Order No. 04 of their government provides social service assistance to PLHIV,

00:30 including their affected families, vulnerable and high-risk communities, and orphaned vulnerable children.

00:37 We have financial assistance. Under the medical assistance, we have medicine assistance,

00:42 antibiotics, and other medicines that are a bit expensive. They can now apply for DSWD.

00:48 Oscar Klim Villanueva also noted the expanded services of the Palliative and Wellness Care Center

00:53 in Butuan City, which was established by the Department of Health and the local government of Butuan,

00:58 through Butuan City Medical Center, where free services for HIV/AIDS-related cases are available.

01:04 Through our program, we can easily detect some HIV status and to prevent further symptoms that worsen.

01:15 According to Dr. Hazel Claire Ang, HIV/AIDS Courts and Physician of the Palliative and Wellness Care Center,

01:21 according to the latest data on HIV in the country, CARAGA has a 3% increase in the CIAM,

01:26 and Butuan City was the first to have it.

01:28 The highest number of HIV cases in the region is between 20 and 34 years old.

01:33 It means that if the case increases, the positive is that we are having good testing centers

01:40 and we are increasing testing centers so that people in the GDAR are reached with the testing.

01:48 Renello Zon, squadron of Philippine Information Agency, CARAGA, for the nation.

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