HIV

Marissa Reynon

Filipino AIDS activist and educator and the 2nd Filipino to go public with HIV at age 19 in 1994

Dolzura Cortez Story

The “___\” was the Philippines’ first movie on AIDS that provided ‘a name and a face’ among the 50 recorded lives that were lost to AIDS in 1992.

Yes

Is HIV a retro virus? (which means it can reproduce itself by taking over the machinery of the human cell)

AIDS

immunodeficiency: failure or absence of elements of the immune system, including lymphocytes, phagocytes, and the complement system.

Republic Act No. 8504

An Act Promulgating Policies and Prescribing Measures for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, Instituting a Nationwide HIV/AIDS Information and Educational Program, Establishing a Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Monitoring System, Strengthening the Philippine National AIDS Council, and for other Purposes