Living with HIV in the Philippines

The official blog of The Project Red Ribbon Care Management Foundation, Inc. (TRR).

  • TRR LOVE FUND

    TRR Love Fund is the arm of the foundation which provides medical assistance to the financially challenged PLHIV.

  • Care assistance for HIV Test

    The Care Assistant Program involves assistance to HIV testing and HIV and AIDS Treatment hubs in the Philippines. Our volunteers schedule the client to the clinic or hub, assist with the procedure in the clinic or hub and conduct peer counseling

  • HOTLINE ASSISTANCE

    With the TRR Hotline Numbers, our volunteers answer concerns and inquiries about HIV and AIDS, do counselling, refers clients to nearest HIV Testing facility, HIV and AIDS Treatment Hub and government and NGO organizations for support

  • PEER COUNSELING

    The foundation volunteers conduct one-on-one counseling either on the phone or in person. They also conduct group counseling

  • SUPPORT GROUP TALK

    The support group talk (SGT) is a program that involves giving HIV lectures by guest speakers, discuss topics about HIV, care, treatment and support, discussion issues related to HIV

  • OUTREACH PROGRAM

    The foundation's outreach program is geared towards providing support to our fellow PLHIV's in the HIV and AIDS Treatment Hubs. Volunteers hand out of donations of medicines and special gifts to PLHIV, give inspirational talks by invited guests to a group of PLHIV, bonding over snacks or meal, visit the sick who are confined in the hospital

  • Referral System

    As part of treatment, the foundation's referral program involves our volunteers referring clients to specialized doctors who are HIV friendly. The foundation has it's own list of specialty doctors of low cost for the indigent PLHIV.

  • Online Support Group

    The foundation has a private Online Support Group in facebook. This group of advocates, supporters, counselors, health Workers and PLHIV

  • Home Health

    Aside from client counselling, the foundation volunteers also do family counselling and home visitation for awareness and continuance of care.

  • Health Fitness

    The foundation believes in holistic approach to treatment and care, thus inclusion of these programs: yoga, dance, swimming, jogging and running, boot camp workouts

  • EVENTS

    As part of awareness and education program, the foundation organizes its own national events to coincide with the international AIDS events: World AIDS Day and International AIDS Candlelight Memorial

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Monday, March 17, 2014

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Condom Distribution in F Club

The Project Red Ribbon (TRR) HIV Awareness and Education partnered with F Club in Quezon City for a regular distribution of FREE condoms and lubricants in the club. This is made possible by TRR's partnership with the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP) of the Department of Health.

 TRR HIV Awareness and Education Program will also reach out to different bars, clubs, party gatherings, spa's and massage parlors in Metro Manila and in the big cities of the country. We will be distrubuting FRR condoms and lubricants, post our TRR banners, posters and hand out TRR HIV flyers with our HIV Hotline numbers and website for people to contact us and ask questions pertaining to HIV, HIV awareness, HIV Testing and HIV Treatment.

 If you want to partner with TRR's program, please contact our TRR HIV Testing, Awareness & Education Manager, Yomi at 0926-697-2240.













"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
NO PLHIV is alone with his or her struggle with HIV!"

-Pozziepinoy-



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Saturday, March 15, 2014

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Partnering with DOH

Two weeks ago, The Project Red Ribbon (TRR) presented it's program to the Department of Health and San Lazaro Hospital in Manila. Now, with mission and vision aligned, TRR is distributing condoms to bars, massage places, parties, salons and different companies in Metro Manila.

 If you want to partner with TRR with our HIV awareness and education programs, if you allow us to put our posters with our HIV Hotline, HIV awareness and prevention flyers and help us with the distribution of FREE condoms and lubricants in designated locations in your company or bars, please let us know.
Contact TRR HIV Testing, Awareness & Education:
Yomi: 0926-697-2240








"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
NO PLHIV is alone with his or her struggle with HIV!"

-Pozziepinoy-



Want to be ASSISTED for the HIV TEST?? 
Check this link:


If you have comments or questions, please click this link:





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Monday, January 28, 2013

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Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry: December 2012

The Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry of the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Department of Health (DOH) has released its Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry for December 2012. From the report, it showed that there were 293 new HIV cases in the country during that month. 97% of the cases were males and 52% came from the National Capital Region (NCR).

Of the 293 cases, 288 cases reported that sexual contact was the mode of transmission. Men having sex with men (MSM) comprised 83% of the total cases.

Fourteen (14) cases were reported as AIDS, however there no reported deaths during this month. Four percent (4%) of the cases were overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

For more details, please see the full report below:






Source: Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry, NEC-DOH





"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
NO PLHIV is alone with his or her struggle with HIV!"

-Pozziepinoy-





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Friday, November 9, 2012

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Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry: September 2012

The Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center (DON-NEC) has recently posted its September 2012 report (Please refer to the actual report below).

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Peer Educator's Training for PLHIV


Be part of the 
NATIONAL POOL OF PEER EDUCATORS FOR PLHIV TRAINED BY 
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

The Department of Health, through the National AIDS STI Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP) under the Infectious Disease Office (IDO) of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC), 
invites applicants for the 
TRAINING ON PEER EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV (PLHIV) on 
November 2012. 


Details of the training will be sent to the qualified applicants. 

To qualify, he/she must:

1. be a PLHIV
2. be empowered and actively involved in support groups or care and support organization
3. have at least one year experience/involvement in providing care and support services to PLHIV
4. have good writing / speaking skills
5. be capable of preparing client profile and narrative report of client intervention
6. have undergone training on HIV 101, RA 8504, and Sex, Gender and Sexuality
7. be articulate in Tagalog and English (or local dialect)
8. have a spirit of volunteerism

Requirements:

1. Application letter addressed to Dr. Jose Gerard B. Belimac, Program Manager, NASPCP
2. Essay on unforgettable experience(s) as a peer educator. State issues and how these were addressed. 
3. Recommendation/Endorsement from Superior / Head of Organization and 2 peers/colleagues
4. Supporting documents for training attended

Considerations for Selection of Applicants: 

Knowledge:

• Basic counseling with emphasis on transference and countertransference 
• Updated on HIV epidemiology (local and global)
• Updated on programs implemented by national government and NGOs
• aware of referral mechanism
• Has basic knowledge on HIV and STI, ART, RA 8504,TCS services
• Must be familiar with illicit drugs and drug use (specially for PLHIV/PWID)
• Must be familiar with human anatomy
• has undergone formal training on peer education and group facilitation

Skills:

• Capable of preparing client profile and activity report 
   Articulate in Tagalog and English (or local dialect)

Atttitude:

• must have self-confidence
• must be gender and age-sensitive
• client – centered approach
• Sensitive, emphatic, open-minded, good listener, good communicator,  trustworthy
• must follow ethical standards of a peer educator
• Committed to serve peers on a voluntary basis

Responsibility of a PLHIV Peer Educator 

a. Deal not just with health but also psychological aspects of health 
b. Could mobilize the community and empowerment initiatives that could evolve into community health educator or integrated programming
c. Information Dissemination and gathering of information
    i. Reporting 
    ii. Monitoring and Evaluation 
        - Forms 
        - Basic narrative report in managing clients
d. How to deal with people holistically
    i. Self awareness
        - Values
        - Attitudes 
        - Personal Needs 
        - Ethical standards 
        - Stress management 
    ii. Interpersonal communication skills
        - Facilitating skills 
        - Negotiation skills
    iii. Psycho social needs
    iv. Basic health needs / life support
        - Basic home-based care 
        - Basic life support 
e. Organizing and building a support group including mentoring of support group establish by peer educators 
f. Responsibility to self

Interested applicants must submit all documents on or before Sunday, September 30, 2012 to: 

Peer Education for PLHIV Training Secretariat
National AIDS STI Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP)
3rd Floor, Bldg. 14
Department of Health
San Lazaro Compound
Sta. Cruz, Manila 
(632) 495-0149

or through email at naspcp@yahoo.com



"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
NO PLHIV is alone with his or her struggle with HIV!"

-Pozziepinoy-


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Thursday, October 11, 2012

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Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry: August 2012

The Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry of the Department of Health (DOH) and the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) has recently posted it's latest HIV and AIDS figures for August 2012 (Please refer to the actual report below).

From the report, 272 new HIV cases were confirmed which is 39% higher compared to the same period last year. 95% of the cases were males and the median age was 28 years. The age group of 20-29  showed the most predominant cases. 51% of the cases came from the National Capital Region (NCR).
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