The year 1981 marked the first known appearance of a disease that did not have a name, no clear origin and with no known procedure on how to test it, much more treat it. Know more:
The year 1981 marked the first known appearance of a disease that did not have a name, no clear origin and with no known procedure on how to test it, much more treat it. And the saddest part of it all is that patients die in a span of a few months.
And don’t even attempt to take it lightly because AIDS has already claimed the lives of 40.1 million people more than 40 years ago, making it a truly major global public health issue.According to Dr.
Testing can be done through Rapid HIV Diagnostic Algorithm , while the other is a confirmatory test that combines two or three Rapid Diagnostic Test formats done in parallel or in sequence.Currently, the Philippines has the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in Asia so that’s really shocking news, according to Dr. Bravo. She said there was a 237-percent increase in annual new HIV infections from 2010 to 2020, and AIDS-related deaths increased by 315 percent.
“In the PGH, the peak was in 2019 just before the pandemic with 40 patients in one year. Now, during the pandemic, it slowed down, which we attributed to decreased testing and delivery in tertiary centers,” Dr. Bravo pointed out.
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