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

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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 .   Photo taken by Mark Alvarez Editing done by Franco Moje What is FIT TO LOVE? FIT TO LOVE is a photoshoot campaign calling every person no matter what size, shape, or serostatus to show the world how they uphold their sexual, mental, and physical health. In the project's early conception, LoveYourself wanted to share the idea of self-worth as reflected by one's healthy choices. From fitness routines and timely testing for HIV to supportive relationships and unconditional positive self-regard, one can express in a variety of ways how they are

LoveYourself gets the thumbs up as a DOH-designated Primary HIV Care Facility

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By Mark Angello C. Ganon On January 18, 2018, LoveYourself joins the ranks of 21 DOH-designated Primary HIV Care Facilities with the release of the Department of Health (DOH) Memorandum No. 2018-0031. With the assistance of 59 Treatment Hubs and 22 Primary HIV Care Facilities, DOH aims to venture into a larger and decentralized provision of HIV care and support services throughout the country. The DOH Administrative Order No. 2017-0019 , also known as the Policies and Guidelines in the Conduct of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Testing Services (HTST) in Health Facilities , outlines an HIV Treatment Hub as a hospital with an organized HIV and AIDS Core Team (HACT) catering to both in-patient and out-patient HIV care whereas a Primary HIV Care Facility is a private or public health facility catering to out-patient clients. In essence, Primary Care Facilities and HIV Treatment Hubs both foster prevention, treatment, care, and support services to Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV). Care