Letter to ASP Members

6 November 2007


Dear Colleague,

You are invited to our annual membership meeting on December 4, 2007. We chose this occasion to welcome new members into our fold. In commemorating ASP’s decade of service in the campaign against HIV and AIDS we have aligned a number of activities including a symposium in the morning on “The AIDS Situation in the Philippines: A Critique (from the Holistic standpoint)” to be followed by a panel discussion, open forum, and dialogue with the media. This business meeting will be in the afternoon.

For both old and new members, please accomplish the revised membership form for the directory. Send them via fax or e-mail. Given our limited resources (this is a difficult year for all concerned) we will try to publish a newsletter with contributions from you on news items, announcements, research notes, or any reports of interest, quotations, etc. not just for our annual meeting but, we’re hoping, with your indulgence, on a continuing basis. How else will the world know that we exist?

Your membership fees are intact under a separate account. These are to be used only for activities in support of members. When we have enough, we could probably offer scholarships or modest assistance for training and research. We have attempted to write proposals for an endowment fund as it is the only way we could sustain our programs and activities apart from research grants which are far and few and could not be used for other purposes.

For now, we can at least offer the facilities of ASP for literature search, counseling and technical consultation, Basic HIV course, and linkages with partners through the Philippine National AIDS Council. Do let us know how we can be of help to your work and, on the other hand, what you can share with others in terms of your expertise and experience on HIV and AIDS-related topics.

Shall we see you in December, then?

Yours truly,



NELIA P. SALAZAR, PhD
President and CEO
AIDS Society of the Philippines, Inc


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