Tagged with HIV/AIDS

Four out of five

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 »

Spreading HIV/AIDS in schools

If we are to believe these officials from the Commission on Higher Education, allowing students living with HIV/AIDS to enroll in our schools and universities would help spread the virus among students. Last Wednesday, I was in the Technical Working Group of the Committee on Higher Education of the House of Representatives, where several bills … Continue reading »