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LoveYourself Expands with Three New HIV Testing Sites

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By Jacob Lazaro and Bet Domingo YOUR WELCOME : LoveYourself’s newest community is named after the iconic Welcome Rotonda as the gateway to Quezon City from Manila. In photo are the volunteers of LoveYourself together with its partner AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). Aside from AHF, Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. and MACARE Laboratories are the major partners of LoveYourself on this new clinic. MANDALUYONG CITY – The LoveYourself, Inc., the leading community-led HIV services provider, will be opening its three new HIV testing centers – two in the National Capital Region (NCR) and one in Cebu City. “This move aims to address the growing numbers of HIV infection among the youth and at risk populations,” LoveYourself founder and executive director Ronivin G. Pagtakhan said. In the past 10 years, the proportion of HIV diagnosis in 15-24 age group nearly tripled from 13% in 2008 to 29% in 2018 based on the latest Department of Health data . Pagtakhan emphasized that it is important to in...

TLY Cebu Joins Sinulog 2013

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The Love Yourself team in Cebu joins the rest of the world in celebrating the Sinulog Festival in Cebu. Come join us at DOCE BAR (Mango Avenue) on January 19, 2013, 10 pm onwards. Get a chance to meet the TLY Cebu team members, ask questions about the team, and just talk about anything and everything under the sun. This is a perfect opportunity for you to come face-to-face with the men and women behind the team.

Loveyourself Cebu: The WAD Effect

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iSupport World AIDS Day (#iSupportWAD) First and foremost, we would like to say our biggest THANK YOU to everyone who supported iSupport  for World AIDS Day (WAD). You guys have no idea how huge and strong your impact was to everyone. Your simple way of changing your profile photos to iSupport Poster on both your Facebook and Twitter accounts and joining our Tweetfest using the hash-tag  #iSupportWAD  were extremely helpful in educating our online friends. (You may refer to the link here  for the iSupport Poster and the TweetFest) . In addition, we would like to share some photos during the World AIDS Day Parade in Cebu. See how cute our banner! The Love Yourself Cebu Team We assure you that this is just the start of a whole new adventure in our continued fight against HIV/AIDS and the stigma that goes along with it. We can't wait for our lined-up events for Christmas and for the year 2013 -- events that you have never experienced before! We look forwa...