MANILA, Philippines --- Minors may now volunteer for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing without the need for parental consent under certain conditions and bases stipulated by the HIV-AIDS Policy Act which has lapsed into law. The HIV-AIDS Policy Act was sent to President Rodrigo Duterte last November 26 for his signature. Bills that are neither signed nor vetoed by the President would lapse into law after 30 days, according to the Constitution. Kabayan Rep. Ron P. Salo, one of the principal authors and a member of the Congressional bicameral conference committee that reconciled House Bill No. 6617 and Senate Bill No. 1370, noted that 2,470 of all diagnosed cases from Januar...
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