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By Kris Tangco Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are one of the groups vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis the Philippines is facing. Addressing the plight of OFWs by highlighting and bringing awareness to their struggles, HIV awareness and advocacy group LoveYourself, in partnership with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) will be staging Care Divas , a play about the lives of five transgender OFWs. Background on OFWs The Filipino diaspora has brought an estimated total of 10.4 million ethnic Filipinos to seek opportunities abroad, roughly 2.3 million of which are OFWs [ 1 ] . As of 2015, OFW remittances sent home by Filipinos abroad amounted to almost 30 billion US Dollars [ 2 ] , representing around more than 10% of the national economy. The Philippines is one of the world’s largest suppliers of human labor - in fact, the country is a pioneer in organized labor migration [ 3 ] . Deployment of Filipinos abroad started during the Martial Law years when legislation forma...

Migs the Manila Gay Guy is a big supporter of The Love Yourself Project . Below is an email from one of his blog readers, codenamed Oidlei1980 , relating his experience and lessons learned from going through his HIV test. We're sharing this letter here with permission from both Migs and Oidlei1980 in the hopes that a more positive and hopeful energy would embrace all of us who are concerned with the growing number of people infected and affected by HIV here in the Philippines. As Migs would repeat in his blog, sending all of you light and love! - o - Dear Migs , Greetings of Peace! (maiba namn from your World Peace!..hahahaha) Noong una I just got interested sa mga pictures posted sa website mo and I really did enjoy those and never paid much attention sa mga blogs and any other information posted...na very ironic for me to do that because mahilig ako magbasa. Kaya noong mga panahon na yun I just spent most of my time kakatingin ng mga pictures kung ano ang mga bago and minsan k...