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By LoveYourself Communications In response to the impending community quarantine in Metro Manila on March 15, 2020, LoveYourself has innovated its antiretroviral therapy (ART) refill delivery system. Through the XPress by LoveYourself, clients enrolled in its treatment services can have their ART refills delivered to their doorstep. This ensures reduced risk for LoveYourself clients living with HIV to be exposed to COVD-19 by reducing the number of clients visiting LoveYourself Centers and eliminating the need to travel. Sign up for the service at go.loveyourself.ph/xpressrefill . Please be mindful of the following eligibility requirements: 6 months experience of ART (no dropping out of care in between). Must have a recent viral load monitoring result within 1 year of less than 1000 copies/mL (Undetectable Viral Load ) Good eligibility status in PhilHealth due to updated contributions. Experience no severe adverse effects of ART Have at least 12 days worth of remaining ART pills. NOTIC...

By Carlos Diego A. Rozul From the booming sounds during a party to the gentle whispers from a significant other, the sense of hearing plays a significant role in making our days more vibrant. For hearing people, it is an essential to understand and appropriately respond to verbal communication. In recent years, researchers [1] in the field of HIV care has put their attention towards the hearing health of people living with HIV (PLHIV). A 2013 integrative review by Assuiti, Lanzoni, dos Santos, Erdmann, and Meirelles [2] revealed that there was not enough evidence for a direct association or implication of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and hearing loss, however they suggested to investigate the associated factors further due to inconclusive data. Image retreived from https://www.flickr.com/photos/photobythomas/11535403595/in/album-72157644872472185/ Hearing Complaints among PLHIV According to van der Westhuizen, Swanepoel, Heinze, and  Hofmeyr [3] PLHIV were more likely to report ...

By Jan Gabriel Castañeda The HIV crisis has gone on for four decades, and for four decades the world has struggled against it. Doctors, scientists, educators, policy makers, writers, artists -- people of all walks and all colors have, in their own ways, sought to make sense of this crisis and its relationship with society. From citizens to states, from medicine to prayer, from cures to cries for reform, people’s visions of how to respond to the crisis are as diverse as the people who bear its scars. The goal of this series is to give you a glimpse of these visions: the roles people of different passions and disciplines have played in this crisis that, as of March 2016 as recorded by the Department of Health’s Epidemiology Bureau, is infecting 25 Filipinos daily. The phrase "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is a troublesome one. Besides being an adage to a complicated colonial heritage, it's not even that good (native fruits like langka and durian are far more nut...

By: Jamie Titan Ang lahat ng mga detalyeng matatagpuan sa sumusunod na kuwento ay kathang isip lamang ng manunulat. Ang mga personal na karanasan ng manunulat bilang isang volunteer counselor sa LoveYourself ang nagsilbing inspirasyon para sa kwentong inyong mababasa. Ginagalang ng LoveYourself ang non-disclosure agreement sa pagitan ng client at ng counselor, at tinitiyak ng manunulat at ng mga patnugot ng website ng LoveYourself na sa pamamagitan ng paglathala ng mga taalarawang personal ay walang nalalabag sa kasunduang ito. Nilalayon ng manunulat at ng mga patnugot na maliwanagan at mabigyan ng perspektibo ang mga mambabasa ukol sa realidad ng HIV. Aligaga. Kung hindi tensyonado, kabado. Punong-puno ng emosyon. Ganito ko mailalarawan ang pakiramdam ng isang newbie tulad ko, lalo na at first time sasabak sa counseling session matapos ang mahaba-habang training ng Love Yourself, Inc. sa mga bago nitong volunteer counselors . Ang training na ito’y tinatawag na “Change Agent Prog...