FIT TO LOVE: Love Your Body, Live Your Life set on March 2018

Break the mold and open your heart, as LoveYourself launches FIT TO LOVE: Love Your Body, Live Your Life, a photoshoot for a cause campaign that aims to uphold your sexual, mental, and physical health. By signing up on go.loveyourself.ph/fittolove, get ready to show how you are FIT TO LOVE this March 17 & 18, 2018 at The Upper Deck Sports Center, 6/F, Ortigas Technopoint Building, 1 Doña Julia Vargas Ave, Pasig, Metro Manila.

How do I make Timely Testing Work for the New Year?

With the number of HIV cases continuing to rise in the country, why not take care of yourself by making make timely testing as part of your new year’s resolutions? There are lots of options as to how you can get yourself tested, each with its advantages.

Safe Spaces PH Distributing Free Condoms and Lubes, Launched

In a country where social stigma is still heavily attached to condom access and use, how does one protect one’s self? LoveYourself, in partnership with Save the Children formally introduced Safe Spaces PH on December 22 at Greenbelt 3’s My Cinema in Makati City through an adult education dialogue which tackled the idea of a sustainable condom distribution supply chain that is augmented by technology.

STATUS: Live and Let Love – An Open Letter from a Person Who Learned What Is to Be True About HIV

If only we think as openly as Kevin Vistan, a community organizer, who wrote an open letter after being educated about the basic facts about HIV and AIDS. Here, he affirms that hate can never drive away hate, but love can.

Batch Duque, LoveYourself’s 18th batch, Completes the Nostalgic Series of the Organization’s Heritage

September 30, 2017—Fresh faces once again dotted the People’s Hall of SM Aura Premier with the orientation of …

STATUS – HIV and Blood Donations

Blood is the lifeline that flows through the body. It nourishes and transports waste products to appropriate filtering organs. In the past year, there have been reports of increased donated units that have tested reactive for HIV after screening consistent with the rise of HIV infections in the Philippines. However, there have also been accounts of nonreactive men having sex with men (MSM) who have been deferred from donating blood on the basis of their sexual orientation.

STATUS – Working with HIV

While some people look to their jobs to make ends meet, others consider their work as a part of their self-fulfillment and self-realization. In this edition of STATUS, we ask: Should your serostatus matter at your workplace?

STATUS – The A to E of Being Positive to a Healthy Lifestyle

The focus of concern here is to strengthen the immune system. It gives the message to do things that boost the immune system and turn away from those that further weaken it. Here are simple ways to a healthier, more positive life

The History of LGBTQ+ Visibility in the Philippines

Filipino LGBT youth today may not be aware of the history of a community where they belong. Within the Philippines’ conservative culture, the community’s roots have long been ignored by many. As such, let us take a quick look at the history of the LGBT movement in the Philippines, from its indigenous conceptualization to today’s advocacy for the anti-discrimination bill.

Batch Marcelino, LoveYourself’s 17th Batch of Volunteers, Joins the Fight Against HIV

46 new recruits joined LoveYourself’s growing number of volunteers. Held at the People’s Hall of SM Aura Premier, the orientation, headed by LoveU (LoveYourself’s Corporate University) Administrator John Cedric Santiago, welcomed the new volunteers as they embraced the organization’s HIV awareness and prevention advocacy.