The poster above is asking if poor families can survive on condoms (literally, ‘can condoms feed my family?’). I read somewhere that this is being circulated by the University of Santo Tomas, a 400-year old pontifical university (roughly as old as condoms, but condoms are evolving at a more progressive rate), but this is unverified. It’s … Continue reading »
This June, UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon will announce that HIV is on the average stabilizing or declining all over the world. That is, except in seven countries – including the Philippines. Being part of this ‘Horror Roll’ would lead many Filipinos to ask why this is happening. We actually know the explanation. Right now, … Continue reading »
When health experts warned that the face of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines is changing, I didn’t expect that it’ll be all too familiar. They said that it is on the rise, that it doubled from 2007 to 2009, that most of the new cases have been acquired through homosexual and bisexual contact, and that the … Continue reading »
The calls usually come in at around 1 or 2 am. Sometimes its from a friend, or an anonymous text message, a missed call from an unlisted number. Soon enough the stories would fit the narrative – a gay establishment got raided, dozens were arrested. A litany of laws and ordinances were supposedly violated, from … Continue reading »
