HIVisions: Secured Living for PLHIV

It will be beneficial for these PLHIV to have some form of assurance in having a secured life and future if only they are given a chance to apply for life insurance policy without discriminatory provisions.

Motherhood and HIV: Finding Support in the Family

This is the story of Nay Elena – a PLHIV, a woman, a Ripple Awardee, and on top of everything, a mother.

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.

Makati, Quezon City, Lead in Implementation of World-Class HIV Counseling and Testing Programs

The local Health Departments of Quezon City and Makati lead the pack in actively implementing world-class HIV prevention programs, particularly HIV Counseling and Testing.

HIV Programs in the Philippines ‘World-Class’, according to WHO

Amidst the rapid rise in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases in the country, the World Health Organization (WHO) lauds the Philippine response to the epidemic as “world class”. In a report published during the last quarter of 2012, WHO praises the use of “existing interventions (that) draw on international best practices such as peer learning, networked outreach, internet chatting, and connecting risk groups to health services.”