Want to be ASSISTED?

The Project Red Ribbon is open today for: 1. One-on-one and Family Counseling. 2. FREE condoms and water-based lubricant distribution. 3. HIV and AIDS Flyer distribution 4. Assistance to a FREE HIV Testing Center...

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Your LIFE can be SAVED!

Your life can be saved! Early HIV testing and early treatment are the keys to saving one’s health and life. Obstacles to these are misinformation about HIV and AIDS, stigma and discrimination issues and lack of information about treatment protocols. ...

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MY PLHIV Journey: This is my story R15-JCM2-ALPHA

This is my Journey as a PLHIV ;) July 18, 2015. Today I thought I Died.. :( … It was 6 months ago since i was diagnosed with minimal tuberculosis and almost done with the treatment when I caught another disease early july and it was pneumonia… My Infectious Disease doctor advised me to take the test but I always neglected to do so…  July 18,2015, I decided to do that through RITM-Satellite Malate and I was with my friend XXX.. Told...

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They Need Your Help!

Project Red Ribbon has a lot of HIV clients needing medical assistance for their laboratory tests and medicines for their opportunistic infections. These patients that we help are indigent and ask the foundation to help them.. THEY NEED YOUR HELP! We know you can donate. We know you can help. We know you have a generous heart. ...

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Project Red Ribbon's New Dentist Partner

Hi Pozziepinoy! I came across your response to Email 311 here and I was wondering if you still have the contact number of the dentist that Dr. Ditangco recommended? I've been looking for an HIV-friendly dentist ever since I got diagnosed, and I've had a hard time looking for one. Hope you can help. Thanks very much, and more power to TRR! Regards, ...

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HEAT in EAC!

Last week, the Project Red Ribbon conducted its school HIV Education and Awareness Talk (HEAT). This time, we conducted it in Emilio Aguinaldo College in Manila. More than two hundred students attended HEAT. Condoms, water-based lubricants and IEC materials from the Department of Health-National AIDS/STI Prevention and Control Program were distributed for FREE. Our volunteers gave testimonials and talked about their HIV journey during the ev...

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January 2016 Support Group Talk (SGT)

The Project Red Ribbon in cooperation with the Manila Social Hygiene Clinic will be conducting its Support Group Talk with a film showing of The Normal Heart. This will be the topic to be discussed among the participants.  For more information about the SGT, please call the Project Red Ribbon Hotline numbers listed belo...

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On HIV Kits, Symptoms and HIV Treatment

Good day ...... Ako ay bumili ng hiv kit online dahil nahihiya ako pumunta sa testing centers..... At pagamit ko... Napatunayan Kung positibo ako sa Hiv.... Ask ako Kung sino pwede Kung mapagtanungan regarding s aking kalagayan....,, ayun s aking nababasa online mas maganda daw ang pag treat ng Hiv sa thailand dahil sa makabago nila ng pagsasaliksik at mas mura ..... Any idea kung magkano ang gastos if Kung sa thailand ako magpapagamot?...

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Job in a Call Center?

sir, if im a hiv positive can i still be hired in call center like jp morgan or convergys? thnx for the info POZZIEPINOY’S RESPONSE Hi sir, Thank you for your email. Like what I mentioned before, anyone can work here in the Philippines even if he or she has HIV. This could be any job, not only in call centers. The reason for this is that we have an HIV law to protect applicants and employees. HIV test is not required for pre-employment,...

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Offer A Moment of Silence

For three days now, Project Red Ribbon has been assisting "M", a PLHIV client who was recently been diagnosed with a cyst in the brainstem. He is one of our volunteers in RITM-ARG and had participated in almost all the foundation's event. He informed us that the cyst showed in his MRI test and he had been experiencing headaches. Yesterday our Care Manager Gerald looked for neurosurgeons for him and yesterday he was rushed to the Emergency Room of one of the hospitals in Manila. He was confined late in the afternoon. He is now under the care of...

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On RITM-ARG CD4 Test

Hi there, Good day! First and foremost, I would like to thank Project Red Ribbon in behalf of all the HIV postive here in the Philippines. The devotion you have showed to people living with HIV is unparalleled.  I have been positive since November 2013, since I have received my false positive result. I have officially been diagnosed last February 2014. My treatment hub is at Klinika Bernardo in Cubao QC.  I have been taking my...

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HIV Campaign at Dinagyang Festival

Project Red Ribbon in partnership with the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines, Iloilo Chapter, UNICEF and the Department of Health-National AIDS/STI Prevention and Control Program is conducting an HIV and AIDS Campaign during the Dinagyang Festival on January 23-24, 2016 at the FPOP Center at Rizal Ibarra, Iloilo City. A booth is placed in from of the center where FREE condoms, lubricants and information and education materials are being...

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HEAT in Sta. Rosa, Laguna

The Project Red Ribbon HIV Education and Awareness Talk (HEAT) once again partnered with Keribeks of Ms. Korina Sanchez in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, yesterday, January 23, 2016. This partnership has been going on since October of 2015, with TRR giving HIV awareness talks to different LGBT groups all over the country and distributing condoms, lubes and HIV IEC materials. We are encouraging everyone and every school, company and organization to partner...

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I Want to Be a Doctor

Good Evening!  I've been reading your blog recently and I really love how detailed and informative it is. Anyway, I've been searching for answers anywhere and honestly I can't find it. I've been living with HIV for 3 years now and I've been taking ARVs since then and my viral load is still undetectable. I'm currently studying and I'm planning to change path and fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a doctor. I'm just hesitant to...

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On Confidentiality and Discrimination

Since yesterday, Project Red Ribbon has been dealing with a client whose HIV status had allegedly been disclosed by a government worker of a government agency providing assistance to indigent people living with HIV (PLHIV) to her neighbors. This resulted to our client being evicted from her home because the landlord got scared that his family may contract the disease from our client. This resulted to our intervention and our consultation with...

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Worried About CMV Retinitis Treatment

Hello.  My name is XXX and I am HIV positive. At first it was hard for me to accept it but with the help of my supportive family I can say that acceptance is the only way through. Life has to move forward. Thank you for gov't assistance and NGOs like yours for advocating awareness about HIV. ...

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SGT Topic: The Normal Heart

The Project Red Ribbon (TRR) will be featuring a film during one of its core programs, the Support Group Talk, The Normal Heart. This will be the point of discussion during the SGT. Here is the trailer of the movie: SGT is a TRR weekly support gathering for people living with HIV, their families and friends. For details about the schedule of SGT's, please contact the hotline numbers below. QUESTIONS ABOUT HIV AND AIDS? WANT TO GET...

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The Project Red Ribbon in Action

For all the readers of the website of Project Red Ribbon, let me tell you what our Care Program has been doing for the past three days: 1. Our Care Volunteers looked for 2 units of blood to be given to a patient confined in RITM, the biggest HIV and AIDS Treatment hub in the country. 2. Our Hotline Manager and Care Manager had referred and have been coordinating with an HIV consultant from The Medical City in Pasig for a patient, initially...

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We are OPEN 3X a Week!

The Project Red Ribbon's Office is now open three times a week. We are open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 9am to 5pm starting January 19, 2015. What does the TRR Office offer? 1. FREE HIV counseling     a. One-on-one counseling / family counseling     b. Phone counseling 2. Assistance to HIV testing center near the office 3. Distribution of FREE:     a. condoms     b. lubricants    ...

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Cost of HIV Treatment?

Hi I want to get direct to the point. I am positive with HIV, i learned it since yesterday from the medical report of the medical clinic here in my host country. I want to be treated. I accepted this battle, as fate of my life. This is no man's choice. No one will be happy to have this. Yes, even I since the moment I received the medical result, all my dreams flash like a light, and then shuttered like a glass. I am working abroad since last...

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Take Control!

Hi.  So i found your site on google and decided to give it try.  I need assistance. I think im HIV positive. I haven't got tested yet but my symptoms says it. Im 21 yrs old. I had a relationship with a guy who i recently found out was diagnosed positive a couple yrs ago. Weeks after we broke up I was hospitalized for tonsilitis. I had a major weight loss. Couple more weeks I was back on the hospital bed for pnuemonia. A very uncommon...

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Confused!

sir, last year june, i knew na may hiv ako.., d ko po alam ang gagawin,d ko rin masabi sabi sa mga magulang ko.... seafarer ako sir, d ko na alam ang gagawin sir... bacolod po ako.... XXX TRANSLATION Sir, last year in June, I knew that I have HIV... I don't know what to do.. I can't tell my parents.. I am a seafarer. I don't know what to do sir.. I'm from Bacolod (City). X...

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