HIV advocacy under my skin

Memory Served: Sometime between 1990 and 1995, Las Pinas

"I've Got You Under My Skin" by Cole Porter for the musical Red, Hot and Blue, performed by Neneh Cherry for the album Red, Hot + Blue

I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
Down so deep in any part of me

For most of my career I was involved in non-profit HIV and AIDS work - first as a learner, then a volunteer educator, then volunteer trainer, then project worker, and then a trustee and manager for a community-based organization. Many travels I did inside and outside the country involved my work on HIV and AIDS.

I'm part of the generation that "woke up" to AIDS as a global scourge. Even if the Philippines detected its first cases in the early 80s, HIV and AIDS awareness were largely absent then. My earliest memory of substantial mass media exposure on the issue was the MTV special "Red, Hot + Blue" in the 90s.

May is by birth month, and on the third Sunday of May, the world also observes the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. In liwaliw Memories this month, I will post some of the things that got HIV and AIDS advocacy under my skin.


[This post is antedated]