8504

• Republic Act 8504 is also known as

  The Philippine AIDS prevention and control act of 1998
• Republic act 8504 has how many sections

  52
• Republic Act 8504 has nine articles
• R.A 8504 was approved on

  February 13, 1998
• R.A 8504 was signed by

  President Fidel V. Ramos
• Article 1

  Education and information
• Article 2

  Safe practices and procedures
• Article 3

  Testing, screening, and counseling
• Article 4

  Health and support services
• Article 5

  Monitoring
• Article 6

  Confidentiality
• Article 7

  Discriminatory acts and policies
• Article 8

  The Philippine national AIDS Council
• Article 9

  Miscellaneous provisions
• Section 2. Declaration of policies
• A condition characterized by a combination of signs and symptoms, caused by HIV contracted from another person

  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS
• Section 4. HIV or AIDS education in schools
• Section 5. Hiv information as a health service
• HIV testing procedure whereby the individual being tested does not reveal his or her true identity

  Anonymous testing
• Identifying symbols used for anonymous testing


  Number or symbol
• Hiv testing imposed upon a person attended or characterized by the lack of vitiated consent

  Compulsory HIV testing
• Method of finding and counseling the sexual partners of a person who has been diagnosed as having a sexually transmitted disease

  Contact tracing
• Virus which causes AIDS

  Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV
• Documentation and analysis of the number of HIV or AIDS infections and the pattern of its spread

  HIV or AIDS monitoring
• Section 6. HIV or AIDS education in the workplace
• Measures aimed at protecting non-infected person from contracting HIV and minimizing the impact of the condition of persons living with HIV

  HIV or AIDS prevention and control
• Refers to the presence of HIV infection as documented by the presence of HIV or HIV antibodies in the sample tested

  Hiv- positive   
• Denotes the absence of HIV or HIV antibodies upon HIV testing

  HIV-negative
• Annie Laboratory procedure done on an individual to determine the presence or absence of HIV infection

  Hiv testing
• Is the transfer of HIV from one infected person to an uninfected individual

  HIV transmission
• A person's frequent involvement in certain activities which increase the risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV

  High-risk behavior  
• The voluntary agreement of a person to undergo or be subjected or procedure based on full information, whether such permission is written, conveyed verbally, or express directly

  Informed consent
• 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, bandicoot technologist and all other health workers or personal involved

  Medical confidentiality
• Individual whose HIV test indicates, directly or indirectly, that he or she is infected with HIV


  Person with HIV
• Process of providing an individual information on the biomedical aspects of HIV or AIDS and emotional support to any psychological implications of undergoing HIV testing and a test result itself before he or she is subjected to the test

  Pre-test counselling
• Providing risk reduction information and emotional support to a person who submit that HIV testing at the time the result is released

  Post-test counseling
• Any agent or device used to prevent the transmission of disease

  Prophylactic
• Section 9. HIV or AIDS education in communities
• Any disease that may be acquired or passed through sexual contact

  Sexually transmitted diseases
• HIV testing done on an individual who, after having undergone pre-test counseling, willingly submits himself or herself to such test


  Voluntary HIV testing