World health Organization (WHO) Provides medicine to Lower HIV risk.
World Health Organization (WHO) offers PrEP Medicine to those people who are in high risk of contracting HIV risks.
The Organization confirmed that they are providing medicine to people who are most at risk of HIV.
WHO claimed that the medicine that they provide can lower the chances of getting infected with the disease.
In a recent news report of Inquirer.net, a total of 28,947 belonged to the male-having-sex-with-male (MSM) category in 38,114 HIV cases that was reported from January 1984 to October 2016.
This report was confirmed in the latest HIV/AIDS Registry of the Philippines (Harp) of the DOH.
The Organization revealed that the MSM category is the main mode of transmission of HIV.
Furthermore, Dr. Gundo Weiler, WHO country representative in the Philippines, announced at the recent press conference for World AIDS Day 2016 that people who are at higher risk and sexually active are advisable use PrEP medicine in order to lower the chances of contracting HIV.
PrEP or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis is a way for people who don’t have HIV but who are at very high risk of getting it to prevent HIV infection. This medicine was said to be taken daily.
” It must be taken daily in order to lower the chances of contracting HIV,” Weiler said.
Weiler explained that WHO was not recommending the use of PrEP to all Filipinos worried of getting HIV, but only for those people who are in higher risk and sexually active.
From December 2012 to October 2016 cases, there are 3,371 total number of individuals who acquired HIV through transactional sex.
The World Health Organization pointed out that the MSM category and those engaged in transactional sex are among the sectors that could be eligible to use the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent the risk of HIV.
