Special Quiz

• Follow-up

  Means the monitoring of a newborn with a heritable condition for the purpose of ensuring that the newborn patient complies fully with the medicine or dietary prescriptions.
• HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

  means hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in centers or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatrics services, whether private or public
• Healthcare practitioner

  Means the physician, nurse, midwife, nursing aide, and traditional birth attendants
• Heritable condition

  Means any condition that can result in mental retardation, physical deformity or death if left undetected and untreated and which is usually inherited from genes of either or both biological parents of the newborn.
• NIH

  National Institute of Health
• Newborn

  Means a child from the time of complete delivery to 30 days old
• Newborn screening

  Means the process of collecting a few drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate collection card and performing biochemical testing for determining if the newborn has heritable condition.
• Newborn screening center

  Means a facility equipped with a newborn screening laboratory that complies with the standards established by the NIH and provides all required laboratory tests and recall/follow-up programs for newborns with heritable conditions.
• Newborn

  A child from the time of complete delivery to 30 days old
• Newborn Screening


  The process of collecting a few drops of blood from the newborn onto an appropriate collection card and performing biochemical testing for determining if the newborn has a heritable condition
• Newborn Screening Center


  A facility equipped with a newborn screening laboratory that complies with the standards established by the NIH and provides all required laboratory tests and recall/follow-up programs for newborns with heritable conditions
• Parent education


  The various means of providing parents or legal guardians information about newborn screening
• Recall


  A procedure for locating a newborn with a possible heritable condition for purposes of providing the newborn with appropriate laboratory to confirm the diagnosis and, as appropriate, provide treatment
• Treatment


  The provision of prompt, appropriate and adequate medicine, medical, and surgical management or dietary prescription to a newborn for purposes of treating or mitigating the adverse health consequences of the heritable condition
• Laboratory


  Area or place, including community-based settings, where research studies are being undertaken to develop local evidence for effective HIV response
• Mature Minor Doctrine


  Legal principle that recognizes the capacity of some minors to consent independently to medical procedures, if they have been assessed by qualified health professionals to understand the nature of procedures and their consequences to make a decision on their own
• Medical Confidentiality


  Core duty of medical practice where the information provided by the patient to health practitioner and his/her health status is kept private and is not divulged to third parties. The patient's health status can however, be shared with: other medical practitioner involved in the professional care of the patient, attending physician, consulting medical specialist, nurse and medical technologist, all other health workers or personnel involved in any counseling, testing or professional care of the patient
• Opportunistic infections


  Illnesses caused by various organism, many of which do not cause diseases in persons with healthy immune system
• Partner Notification


  Index client/source/patient with sexually transmitted infection (STI) including HIV is given support to notify and advise partners that have been exposed to infection
• Person Living with HIV (PLHIV)


  Any individual diagnosed to be infected with HIV
• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis


  1. Use of prescription drugs as a strategy for the prevention of HIV infection by people who do not have HIV and AIDS

  2. It is an optional treatment, which may be taken by people who are HIV-negative but who have substantial, higher-than-average risk of contracting an HIV infection
• Pre-test Counseling


  Providing an individual with 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 the individual is subjected to the test
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis


  Preventive medical treatment started immediately after exposure to pathogen (HIV) in order to prevent infection by the pathogen and the development of the disease
• Post-test Counseling


  Providing risk-reduction information and emotional support to a person who submitted to HIV testing at the time the result is released
• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis


  Preventive medical treatment started immediately after exposure to pathogen (HIV) in order to prevent infection by the pathogen and the development of the disease
• Post-test Counseling


  Process of providing risk-reduction information and emotional support to a person who submitted to HIV testing at the time the result is released
• Prophylactic


  Any agent or device used to prevent the transmission of an infection
• Redress


  An act of compensation for unfairness, grievance, and reparation
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)


  Infections that are spread through the transfer of organisms from one person to another as a result of sexual contact
• Sexual Orientation


  Direction of emotional, sexual attraction, or conduct towards people of the same sex (homosexual orientation), towards people of both sexes (bisexual orientation), towards people of the opposite sex (heterosexual orientation), or to the absence of sexual attraction (asexual orientation)
• Stigma


  Dynamic devaluation and dehumanization of an individual in the eyes of others
• Treatment hubs


  Private and public hospitals or medical establishments accredited by the DOH to have the capacity and facility to provide treatment and care services to PLHIV
• Voluntary HIV testing


  HIV testing done on an individual who, after having undergone pre-test counseling, willingly submits to such test
• Vulnerable communities


  Communities and groups suffering from vulnerabilities such as unequal opportunities, social exclusion, poverty, unemployment, and other similar social exclusion, making them more susceptible to HIV infection and to developing AIDS
• Workplace


  Office, premise or work site where workers are habitually employed and shall include the office or place where workers regularly report for assignment in the course of their employment
• Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART)


  Treatment that stops or suppresses viral replication or replications of a retrovirus like HIV, thereby slowing down the progression of infection
• Bullying


  Severe or repeated use by one or more persons of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act of gesture, directed at another person in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to one's property; creating a hostile environment; infringing on the rights; or materially and substantially disrupting the processes or orderly operation of an institution or organization
• Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)


  Groups of nongovernmental and noncommercial individuals or legal entities
• Compulsory HIV Testing


  HIV testing imposed upon an individual characterized by lack of consent, use of force or intimidation, the use of testing as a prerequisite for employment or other purposes, and other circumstances when informed choice is absent
• Discrimination


  Unfair or unjust treatment that distinguishes, excludes, restricts, or shows preferences (sex gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, economic status, disability, ethnicity, and HIV status) which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by all persons similarly situated, of all their rights and freedoms