Pinoy Men's Sexual Health Forum

Share information and tips on Male Sexual Health for Filipino Males who have sex with other Males. We focus on guys living, working or spending their leisure time in Quezon City. This is in support of the MSM (Males having Sex with Males) Health Project of the Quezon City Health Department. This project is supported by the MSM Outreach program ReachOut Foundation International and SIGLAH (Sharing Information for Gay and Lesbian Access to Health) of ProGay Philippines.

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ProGay Philippines is an advocacy group working for equality for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Filipinos through learning, organizing, service provision and other community activities.

Monday, May 15, 2006

23rd International AIDS Candlelight Memorial










May 21 Sunday, 6:00 p.m. at the Quezon City Hall grounds. Please bring a candle or two.

Stop the virus, share the information, spread the hope!!!

This is the world's largest and oldest annual HIV/AIDS event. The theme for this year's observance is "Lighting the Path to a Brighter Future." Since 1983, the pandemic has claimed more than 28 million lives, with about 42 million now living with HIV and AIDS.

The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Campaign, a program of the Global Health Council, (GHC), is a 12-month mobilization project that encourages communities and individuals around the world to become more involved with HIV/AIDS work through participation in a worldwide memorial.

The memorial was designed to honour the memory of those who died because of the virus, demonstrate support to those living with the virus and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS while mobilizing community involvement in the fight against the epidemic. The first International AIDS Candlelight Memorial was held in 1983 in San Francisco and New York when very little was known about HIV/AIDS and no more than a few thousand cases had been reported The Philippines joined the world in the observance of the memorial.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is not widespread as yet. The country has one of the lowest rates (less than 1%) of HIV infection in Asia, prompting experts to describe the status of its spread in the Philippines as "low and slow" while at the same time feel that all the ingredients are present for the epidemic to spread rapidly.

To this end the Department of Health (DOH) again led this year's Candlelight Memorial. A recently issued memorandum directed all government health centers and regional and provincial health offices to advocate and mobilize activities for awareness in coordination with government and non - government organizations.

Different events from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Contact your Quezon City-based gay men and bisexual men's organizations for more details!

ReachOut Foundation tel. 8173743

Order of St. Aelred, tel. 4337277

ProGay Philiippines tel. 3743451

posted by Oscar Atadero | 4:41 PM

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