HIV in the Philippines

 Hello there! Its nice to be back after few months of being away from this blog. I was too busy to even notice that its almost 4 months since I made an entry. I tried visiting my page again and I felt like reading some of my posts and I felt the sincerity back when I was writing those. It even reminds me of what pushes me to write at that time. Well for now, what brought me here is my last entry about asking God why it has to be me in terms of catching HIV. Although it feels good to travel back to past, what I am about to share is quite a bad news.

431 newly infected HIV Filipinos has been detected in June 2013 alone. This is way high compared to my batch (why does it sounds funny for me to tell "my batch"???) which is around 180 two years ago. I am quite happy with the news. Happy in the sense that there is something in me that tells me that these people are not "newly" infected but some or most of them are just starting to be aware of the importance of knowing their status. Although this is a bad news to anyone to learn that they already caught the virus, this is generally a good start. First, they are now more concious of the lifestyle that their having and be more protective of their health and second, they are now (hopefully) be more responsible in their sexual activities doing their very best not to infect others.

To those who are newly diagnosed and is currently surfing the net to see if there is something or someone that they can relate to. I hope my blog will be useful. I wrote some articles during my ups and my downs because it helped me cope up from my stress and I know the importance of knowing that somebody has gone where you are right now and is able to live after the shock.

I am sending you my prayers and my hug. Continue living. Life is wonderful.

This is my diary. This is our story.

Yours,

Potchini2