City LGU, Health Units Intensify Drive vs HIV/AIDS

ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, Oct. 25 (PNA) — City Mayor Casimiro “Jun” Ynares III has ordered the city health services units and barangay health workers here to cascade the health awareness and information campaign on anti-HIV (or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and disease prevention to the barangays.

In a report Tuesday, Mayor Ynares urged continuous monitoring and detection of HIV-AIDS cases in the city springing from the joint forums on the HIV held last month by the Department of Health (DOH) for the Barangay Health Workers (BHW) here.

Ynares said barangay and city constituents should be made aware of the disease as he referred to DOH data which disclosed more than 400 HIV-affected persons have been detected since 1991 in Antipolo City.

As a physician by profession, Mayor Ynares has urged constituents to undergo medical check-ups, get HIV tests, consultations and avail of the city health services to prevent the spread of HIV in case of any HIV symptoms or signs.

As part of the city’s HIV/AIDS information drive and awareness campaign, the barangay health workers have been mobilized to urged constituents to reduce risk of transmission and undergo HIV/AIDs testing once there are early symptoms or signs.

These HIV symptoms and signs include extreme and unexplained tiredness; rapid weight loss; recurring fever or profuse night sweats; prolonged swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck and sores of the mouth, anus or genitals and other signs.

The City Health Office (CHO) also encouraged patients to have the HIV tests early on to reduce AIDS transmission by availing services of their social hygiene clinic and assured patients that results are treated with confidentiality. (PNA)
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(Source: PNA.gov.ph)