Remedios

AIDS
Foundation
 Upon the emergence of AIDS in the
90’s several doctors together with some
volunteers realize the need for an
organization that would educate, give free
clinical consultations and screening tests,
and counselling to those at risk and those
who already have the disease. Thus, on the
year 1991, Remedios AIDS Foundation, Inc
was born. And the best place to have its
headquarters? Of course, no other than the
“Red District” of Manila, the Malate area.
 The RAF VISION
Sustainable credible with committed and
compassionate individuals working towards the
provision of quality care services and
information to affect behavior change adhering
to the principles of rights based and gender
responsiveness
 The RAF MISSION
Remedios AIDS Foundation (RAF) shall
provide gender and rights based HIV and AIDS
SRH services and information to the youth
women and men specifically MARP through
preventive and promotive strategies, capacity
building, advocacy and networking care and
support, module development and resource
generation
 RAF Programs
Counselling
•phone hotlines
•face to face counselling
•Youthzone
– innovative and interactive chat room channel
– provides reproductive health counselling services
to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) users. 
 RAF Programs
Training Institute
•Lectures
•Training
•Workshops
•Seminars
•Symposia
•postgraduate courses
•annual conventions on sexual and reproductive
health.
 RAF Programs
Resource Center
•collection of more than 5,000 titles of books,
journals, surveys and reports on HIV/AIDS/STD,
family planning, sexuality and other areas of
reproductive health (RH). 
 RAF Programs
Information Education Communication (IEC)
Materials Development and Distribution
•posters, manuals, modules, directories,
postcards, flyers, pamphlets, brochures,
stickers, bookmarks, pins, and client service
cards
 RAF Programs
Adolescent Reproductive Health Services
•innovative center for the youth which is
shopping mall based that provides various
adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH)
information and clinic services. 
 RAF Programs
Community Support Services to PLWHAs
•HIV AIDS Care and Support services are provided
like counselling, training and facilitating skills, small
group meetings, office management, medical and
alternative treatment and management,
recreational activities, "return to work"
opportunities among PHIVs. Constant consultations
with PLWHAs groups like Pinoy Plus Association are
always undertaken.
 RAF Programs
Prevention Services Targeting Vulnerable Communities.
•registered sex workers in the Southern Tagalog regions
namely Gumaca province Quezon and San Pablo City
Laguna through provision of HIV AIDS prevention services
through peer education approach.
•The project is supported by Global Funds AIDS Project
Filipinas PNGOC.
• It also targets drugs users in Cebu city Barangays Pasil
and Kamputhaw through peer education approach.
Provision of Needles/syringes has been made possible
through multisectoral consultation and partnership with
Cebu City Multisectoral STD HIV AIDS Council (CCMSAC).
 RAF Programs
Care, Clinical and Diagnostic Services
•Innovative community-based clinic situated right at
the hearts of Malate, Manila and Cebu City.
•provides holistic quality services addressing the
diverse health needs of its target clienteles.
– health-related educational services, reproductive health
and family planning counselling, basic medical,
obstetrical, gynecological and surgical procedures,
voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), STD case
management.
•Confidentiality, anonymity and quality clinical care
guaranteed.
 RAF Programs
Global Partnerships, Networking/Advocacy
•through daily media watch for print and
broadcast releases to address issues relevant to
HIV/AIDS/STDs, sexuality and reproductive
health (RH).
Interviewee:
•Ms. Cecil Annonuevo
•Social Worker
•Executive Director, RAF

•Started as a field staff

•Overall in-charge in operations
How did you become a member of this org?
What makes it fulfilling?
What are the difficulties?
What are the joys?
Would we want to join RAF?
On how we feel about RAF and
the interview?
What inspires you to join RAF
and discourages you?
We learned a lot of things in
this interview…
Did it change the way we want
to do things in medicine?
“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And
what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk
humbly with your God.
Mic 6:8