By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Based on CHO records between January 2007 and October of this year, the Bacolod City Health Office (CHO) reported a total 590 cases related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Negros Occidental, with 300 from Bacolod City.

The province currently has the second-highest number of cases in the region, following Iloilo City with 700.

Records also found most cases were transmitted from male-to-male intercourse, with most patients between the ages of 25 and 34.

Meanwhile, the office has been conducting public information drives in order to further contain the spread of the virus./DGB, WDJ