In the late 1980s, the 1990s, and the early 2000s, HIV/AIDS loomed large in the Filipino public's consciousness. News of this dread disease, its causes, cures, and consequences filled all forms of media, even the nascent internet. Public fora, interviews with health authorities and activists, even movies featuring the stories of people living with (and dying of) HIV/AIDS, brought the largely sexually transmitted disease to the forefront of Filipinos' concerns. Or so it seemed. Today, HIV/AIDS produces hardly a blip in the radar of the nation's awareness.
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