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Sarah Jane Salazar, born Marissa Reynon (1975 – June 11, 2000), was a Filipino AIDS activist and educator and the second Filipino to go public with HIV at age 19 in 1994. [1] The first was Dolzura Cortez.
Ma. Dolzura Cortez (died 1992) was a Filipino AIDS victim. She was the first Filipino with AIDS to publicly discuss her life and her experience living with HIV/AIDS. [1] [2] Cortez responded to a newspaper ad looking for a person living with HIV/AIDS who was willing to have their life serialized in print and later developed into a movie.
An outspoken LGBT activist he hosted the "I Am Not Immoral" photo exhibition to protest against the exclusion of the LGBT "Ang Ladlad" list from elections in 2010. [2] Cosme is also an HIV/AIDS awareness advocate; he started The Red Whistle campaign in 2011 to raise awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines.
That same year, the official AIDS Candlelight Memorial was held for the first time. The organization Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the world's first AIDS discrimination suit, receiving assistance from the GMHC. [15] In 1984, Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, declared the first "AIDS Awareness Week" event.
The first case of HIV infection in the Philippines was reported in January 1984. [4] In December 2018, the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018, was passed. [5] The law repealed the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, and made health services for HIV/AIDs more accessible to Filipinos. [6]
A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil or candlelight service is an assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to pray, show support for a specific cause, or remember the dead, in which case, the event is often called a candlelight memorial. [1] Such events may be held to protest the suffering of some marginalized group of ...
Lists of festivals in the Philippines (2 P) Pages in category "Lists of events in the Philippines" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
HIV/AIDS in the Philippines This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 07:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...