MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 044
Rising HIV/AIDS cases alarm health exec in GenSan By MDNN GenSan News Bureau
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A top-ranking health official in this city has sounded alarm bells on the rise of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) cases. Zyrnx John Octavio, HIV/AIDS C ore Team (HACT) nurse and HIV counselor of the City Health Office (CHO) said the data was based on detected cases since last year. Octavio revealed the youngest person who contracted HIV is a 16-year-old male, whose identity is kept confidential due to the very sensitive issue of HIV/AIDS. The city health official said the male victim is now undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART) through the city’s Social Hygiene Clinic. “Our cases are getting younger and this is really a concern for us right now,” he said in an interview with the media Based on their initial investigation on the rise of HIV/AIDS cases, the health official blames social media and dating sites as contributory factors in the fast rise of the disease in General Santos. See ALARM, page 15
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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte would drop his intent to run for vice president in 2022 if his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara
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ON PHILIPPINE AIRFORCE AIRCRAFT TRAGEDIES
Zubiri slams AFP’s ‘flying coffins’ By SONY SUDARIA BARMM News Bureau and OSCAR LEDESMA Bukidnon News Bureau
President Rodrigo Duterte and Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte (Presidential Photo)
Duterte won’t run for VP if Sara joins prexy race By RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS
Thursday, August 26, 2021
MALAYBALAY CITY Following recent tragedies involving the air assets of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Senator Miguel Zubiri is strongly pushing for the modernization of the country’s old and dilapidated aircraft. The senator is now so concerned about the recent plane crash in the Sulu airstrip that claimed the lives of 48 newly-trained soldiers and 3 civilians on the ground. Zubiri claimed this is now a very serious matter for the country’s air assets which are now tagged by many people as the “flying
coffins” of the armed forces. “I am unfortunately starting to sound like a broken record in my call for modern aircraft and training equipment for our troops. I mourned the tragic loss See SLAMS, page 15
Tokyo Olympic medalist Paalam returns to CdeO, receives P2-M more
Duterte, seeks the presidency, Malacañang said By JOEL CALAMBA ESCOL Wednesday. Managing Editor Duterte made the pro- CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY nouncement during his - The City’s boxing pride, See RUN, page 15 Carlo Paalam, has finally returned home and received his P2-million as promised by the City Government and approve by the City Council. Paalam also received a merit of distinction from the City Council for his successful Olympic boxing that catapulted Cagayan de Oro into greater heights because of the boxer’s winning of the silver medal. In a virtual press briefing, Paalam thanked all the supporters in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental See RETURNS, page 15