Wake-uppers:
Scene: The OMG’s outreach program was held
in Lila town last Jan. 12 organized by US-based socialite Mikey Gatal. It was
supported by US-based topnotch lawyer Sandy Roxas. The charity event was also a
homecoming of balikbayan couple Alot and Babat Bagotchay of Los Angeles
California.
Scene: Jagna Mayor Fortunato Abrenilla
died of cardiac arrest on Jan. 14. He was 69. Abrenilla, known to many as “Bic-Bic”, was a former
legal staff director of National Economic Development Authority (NEDA). He was
elected mayor of Jagna in 2010, 2013, and 2016. Abrenilla used what he learned
about NEDA’s internal control system to effectively manage Jagna town’s limited
resources. “Your loss has left all of us
deeply saddened,” nurse Oliver Acebes posted on Facebook. Resident
Dexter Ranis also said, “We lost a great Mayor in our town but his memory will
remain.” Municipal government employees were also mournful upon learning their
mayor had died.
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| The OMG charity event
organized by US-based socialite Mikey Gatal and supported by topnotch lawyer Sandy Roxas was held in Lila last week. |
Various
posts are circulating in social media that eating fish caught in Bohol and on
the Mactan Channel can cause HIV infection.
The Department of Health 7 said persons can’t be infected with HIV by eating fish caught at the Mactan Channel.
The Commission on
Population (Popcom) in Central Visayas said that there’s no truth about the
text circulating. It said that the virus (HIV) will die when exposed
to air, heat, moisture and acid.
HIV can only be passed on
from person to person if infected body fluids (such as blood, semen, vaginal or
anal secretions and breast milk) get into your bloodstream through
unprotected sex, from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or
breastfeeding, injecting drugs with a needle that has infected blood in it and
infected blood donations or organ transplant.
The
latest fake news circulating on the HIV rumour mill means that many are
misinformed. In fact, the fake news just keep reinforcing HIV-related stigma
and have had a long-lasting and damaging impact on many people’s perceptions
about how the virus is spread.
Remember, you cannot get
HIV from…
1-You can’t get HIV from
kissing. Yes, even torrid kissing!
2- You can’t get HIV from
shaking hands or hugging.
3- You can’t get HIV from
being bitten or scratched.
4- You can’t get HIV from
sharing food, water utensils and other household items. HIV can’t survive in water, so you won’t get HIV from
swimming pools, baths, shower areas, washing clothes or from drinking water.
5- You can’t get HIV from
animals such as fish, mosquitoes and other insects. The virus cannot survive to
insects and animals.
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