Week 7: The Philippines Aids Prevention and Control Act of 1998 Flashcards
AN ACT PROMULGATING POLICIES ANDPRESCRIBING MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HIV/AIDS IN THE PHILIPPINES, INSTITUTING A NATIONWIDE HIV/AIDS
MONITORING SYSTEM, STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL AIDS COUNCIL, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES
THE PHILIPPINE AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL CT OF 1998
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease that recognizes no territorial, social, political and economic boundaries for which there is no known cure.
Promote public awareness about the cause, mode of transmission,
consequences, and means of preventing and controlling HIV/AIDS
Protection of human rights of persons suspected or infected with
HIV/AIDS
Eradicate conditions that aggravate spread of HIV infection such as:
poverty, gender inequality, prostitution, marginalization, drug abuse, ignorance
Prevent discrimination in school, work, hospital, and even community
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Is a disease that recognizes no territorial, social, political and economic boundaries for which there is no known cure
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
refers to an HIV testing procedure whereby the individual being tested does not reveal his/her identity. An identifying number or symbol is used to substitute for the name and allows the laboratory conducting the test and the person on whom the test is conducted to match the test results with the identifying number or
symbol.
Anonymous Testing
refers to HIV testing imposed upon a person attended or characterized by the lack of or vitiated consent, use of physical force, intimidation or any form of compulsion
Compulsory HIV Testing
refers to the method of finding and counselling the sexual partner(s) of a person who has been diagnosed as having sexually transmitted disease.
Contact tracing
refers to the virus which causes AIDS.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
refers to the documentation and analysis of the
number of HIV/AIDS infections and the pattern of its spread
HIV/AIDS Monitoring
refers to measures aimed at protecting non-infected from contracting HIV and minimizing the impact of the condition of persons living with HIV.
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control
refers to the presence of HIV infection as documented by the presence of HIV or HIV antibodies in the sample being tested.
HIV-positive
denotes the absence of HIV or HIV antibodies upon HIV testing.
HIV-negative
refers to any laboratory procedure done on an individual to determine the presence or absence of HIV infection
HIV Testing
refers to the transfer of HIV from one infected person to an uninfected individual, most commonly through sexual intercourse, blood transfusion, sharing of intravenous needles and during pregnancy
HIV Transmission
refers to an individual whose HIV test indicates, directly or indirectly, that he/she is infected with HIV.
Person with HIV
refers to a person’s frequent involvement in certain
activities which increase the risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV.
High-Risk Behavior
refers to the voluntary agreement of a person to
undergo or be subjected to a procedure based on full information, whether such permission is written, conveyed verbally, or expressed indirectly.
Informed Consent
refers to the relationship of trust and confidence
created or existing between a patient or a person with HIV and his attending physician, consulting medical specialist, nurse, medical technologist and all other
health workers or personnel involved in any counselling, testing or professional care of the former; it also applies to any person who, in any official capacity, has acquired or may have acquired such confidential information.
Medical Confidentiality
these 2 departments along with TESDA, coordinated with DOH to integrate instructions
Department of education, culture and sports (DECS),
Commission of Higher Education (CHED)
refers to the period of time, usually lasting from two weeks to six (6) months during which an infected individual will test “negative” upon HIV testing but
can actually transmit the infection.
Window Period
refers to the process of providing an individual information on the biomedical aspects of HIV/AIDS and emotional support to any psychological
implications of undergoing HIV testing and the test result itself before he/she is subjected to the test.
Pre-Test Counselling
refers to the process of providing risk-reduction
information and emotional support to a person who submitted to HIV testing at the time that the test result is released.
Post-Test Counselling
Civic duty of health providers in private sector to relay
information & correct misconceptions on:
Ethical issues
Confidentiality
Informed consent
Duty to provide treatment
SECTION 5
refers to any disease that may be acquired or
passed on through sexual contact
Sexually Transmitted Diseases