Registration for HIV Positive Voters

HIV Positive validating their registration before a COMELEC Information Verification Officer.

The registration of the HIV positive victims was finally pushed through after its postponement during their first registration schedule.  From the expected 100 new registrants there were only 20 of them who made it last Saturday September 24, 2011.  This has been confirmed by their leader who was also an HIV positive herself whose identity we must respect to reveal.  This move has been a breakthrough for these people to finally register themselves, as a pre requisite to exercise their basic and fundamental right to vote in the upcoming May 2013 general elections and the elections more to come.

 

It is not easy to come out in the open despite the ordeal that they have been facing, some even brought their kids along with them, the kind of courage we should not miss to commend.  


You can find pictures of the event and the other archived pictures by going to this LINK.(note that the HIV Registration is archived under the album Sept. 24,2011)