MANILA, Philippines—Sen. Pia Cayetano has thrown in the towel as far as the bill she proposed to strengthen the laws designed to prevent the spread in the country of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and HIV, the virus that causes it. Cayetano, the chair of the Senate committee on health, conducted a public hearing on her Senate Bill No. 3398 on Thursday but doubted that it would reach the plenary with only three session days left before Congress goes into a long recess for the election campaign period. But, as she will still be in the Senate in the next three years, she said she would just refile the measure in the next Congress after the 2013 el...
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