Ni sa bula vinaka. just a short update on my recent trip to samoa! It was a great opportuntiy to have met with 5 collegues, 4 are members of Nuidei and one i met for the first time. We talked about the Self Monitoring Bookelt and it was an eye opening that most did not have information about the drugs they were taking. A discussion on treatment was the topic of thje day.

I am the youngest in the family of nine (4 brothers and 4 sisters) and life has not been easy. I was my dad's pet when he passed away when i was only 11 years old. My mum remarried to a high chief three years later which gave us children especially the boys a challenge of living with a step father. Very caring but an alcoholic. I left school and eventually home due to joining a religious group that believed in faith healing and that God will always provide even if you don't go to school, you…

There is always a first time for everything. In the circle of HIV and AIDS the first case was reported around 1981. The first reported case of HIV in the Pacific Islands was in 1984 in RMI and CNMI. In 1989, Fiji reported its first case and in December 2010, almost 30 years since the first reported case in the world, the first case for the Cook islands was reported. The response was no different from those when the first recorded case from other countries was reported - stigmatising,…

I would like to start sharing my personal story through this blog and i do hope that you will also share you story so that we may be able to use this venue to gain stregth and hope and share challenges. You don't have to use your real name if you want to do this.

It is a lesson learnt when I am feeling really low and discourage, i should always remember that someone somewhere is suffereing more than i am. I can tell this through what i see on the TV news, in thenewspaper and what i…