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By: Mark de Castro In commemoration of the World AIDS Day observed every 1st of December, Senator Risa Hontiveros, head of the Committee on Health and Demography, partnered with LoveYourself last November 29 in spearheading an HIV Testing campaign for the employees of the Senate of the Philippines. Together with the help of the Pasay City Social Hygiene Clinic, the testing was conducted from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Jose P. Laurel Hall. Hontiveros recognizes the need to decrease, if not obliterate, discrimination and increase the level of health consciousness and solidarity in the general public [ 1 ] . With aims to raise awareness about the disease and emphasize the importance of early detection, this partnership between LoveYourself and the senate is a good leap towards the battle against HIV. The Senate for the Youth Senator Hontiveros voiced out her concern for the youth and emphasized that they are now part of the key affected population of the HIV epidemic. “This is highly imp...

By Raybert Domingo As a contribution to the celebration of the World AIDS Day on 01 December, HIV prevention advocacy group LoveYourself, Inc. introduces a new HIV prevention method called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV during the #HackingHIV event on Tuesday night (29 November) at MyCinema Greenbelt 3 in Makati City. Supported by Philippine Department of Health, AmFAR and World Health Organization, LoveYourself was the chosen organization to pioneer the launching of PrEP in the Philippines under the banner program #PrEPPilipinas Program in which initial demonstration is envisioned to be executed within the first quarter of 2017. PrEP is an HIV medicine comprised of tenofovir and emtricitabine, taken daily to lower the chances of contracting the virus. Co-primary investigator of the PrEP Pilipinas project and LoveYourself Senior Director Christopher M. Lagman emphasized that “PrEP shouldn’t be taken as a replacement to current prevention measures, but an option and another lev...