New Bill For AIDS
Stopping AIDS on PH “Hidden and Growing”, this is what Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda R. Marcos describe the booming AIDS cases in the Philippines which the old bill on AIDS has failed to address (the Republic Act No.8504 or the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998) that is why the number of AIDS cases increase dramatically. For a large number of HIV cases (4,987 according to Marcos) were asymptomatic or do not felt any symptom of the virus at all and felt that they were just okay yet they have it and only 857 cases were full blown. Moreover, most HIV carriers are youths and children and 323 children have already died of the virus. Furthermore, according to Marcos “…what is more alarming are the unreported and undocumented cases now escalating at an estimated 12,000 HIV cases. This incidence should not be underestimated…”
Imelda Marcos
The proposed new bill will amend the former bill on AIDS (the Republic Act No.8504 or the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998) and will have a comprehensive monitoring program that will check the spread of HIV and will fine Php.30, 000 and will be jail for five years those people who discriminate and despise HIV-AIDS sufferers for those people who love to discriminate hinders HIV-AIDS sufferers to come into open and seek help, support and medication for it. Moreover, the new bill on AIDS will also punished two year imprisonment for people who spread wrong or misleading information about HIV and AIDS and its control and prevention; and will suspend one’s professional license if one is a professional or business license if one is a businessman or have own business
