World AIDS Day

An award-winning novel.
Ang Aking Buhay (Ikaw ang aking Buhay) is a story of great love of husband to his ailing wife. Violy is a faithful wife but in the practice of her profession as medtech she acquired the virus through blood-blood contact.

When I wrote this book, I understand people living with AIDS in a much higher level. The words are given a distinctive human voice, the image are given a distinctive human face.
Intravenous drug users. Recipient of infected blood and organ. Sexual partner with HIV. Infant children of infected mothers. Men who had sex with men. Commercial sex workers. Multiple sex partner.

Each image has a story to tell.

What we learn from them is not death, it is the richness of life, that show strenght of the human spirit, they want to breath their last breath with dignity.
This book was awarded as best novel by AIDS Society of The Philippines and Ford Foundation, USA. I became media delegate in 5th ICAAP held in World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Pigilan Natin Ang Gabi by Randy Valiente also won in novel category.

Based on the number of people living with HIV has risen from around 8 million in 1990 to 33 million today, and is still growing. Around 67% of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
During 2007 more than two and a half million adults and children became infected with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus that causes AIDS. By the end of the year, an estimated 33 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released their 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, which indicated, among other things, that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have declined in recent years. Still, this figure is very alarming.

Everyone is at risk. In the world of AIDS everybody should be responsible. Practice safer sex.

Media should be sensitive and sensible, not sensational about public health crisis.
Correct and accurate information for those at risk is the best line of defense.






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