Dear Readers,
Here are two incredible events taking place in September.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt Philippines display is taking place on September 4, Friday, 8PM in Bed Bar.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt Philippines: Patterns of Life, Patchworks of Love
| Host: | Benedict Bernabe |
| Type: | |
| Network: | Global |
| Price: | PHP 500.00 |
| Date: | Friday, September 4, 2009 |
| Time: | 8:00pm - 11:00pm |
| Location: | Bed Bar + Club Malate |
| Street: | M. Orosa cor. J. Nakpil Courtyard, Malate |
| City/Town: | Manila, Philippines |
| Phone: | 639178266169 |
| Email: |
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The other fantastic event is the Philippine Red Party happening the next day at San Miguel by the Bay, SM Mall of Asia.
The Red Party Rationale
Medical students across Australia have rallied as part of a nation-wide effort to increase awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a devastating spectrum of disease afflicting an estimated 33 million people across the globe.
To raise awareness, Australian medical students have hosted several fundraising and educational events all around the country. Themed with the color red, the
international color for HIV and AIDS, the events have affectionately become known as 'Red Parties'.
Two of these Australian medical students, Patrick Aouad and Zabrina Abdool, from the Australian National University visited the Philippines recently. They
saw the plight of our fellowmen, especially those seeking consult at the Philippine General Hospital.
They returned to Australia and proposed that the Adult Infectious Disease section of the Philippine General Hospital be the Red Party’s recipient of a CD4
machine, an indispensable diagnostic tool for people living with HIV/AIDS. Fortunately for us, they were granted this request.
Thus the PHILIPPINE RED PARTY came to be.
We are medical specialists, HIV positive patients, and HIV awareness advocates.
The Philippine Red Party Project will hold a photo exhibit on August 25, 2009 and a benefit rock concert on September 5, 2009, simultaneous
with Australia’s Red Party.
Funds raised from these events will enable us to acquire an RT-PCR machine for doing HIV viral loads, to complement the CD4 machine from Australia.
Again- Proceeds from both events will be used to procure a viral load count machine for
the PGH. This will help take the burden away from the two centers in Manila (San Lazaro and RITM) servicing HIV patients.
