Chapter 91
HIV Testimony Wanggo Gallaga, son of critically acclaimed filmmaker Peque Gallaga, was working as the features editor for a college magazine when he learned he was HIV positive. "[My family] all knew my lifestyle, I was gay, sleeping around," Gallaga told Rappler in 2015. "They were always telling me to use protection. I didn't." Gallaga, like many in the Philippines, had thought HIV/AIDS was something that only happens to people overseas. Now, as the country has seen HIV cases jump by a shocking 3,147 percent in the past 10 years, he wants his compatriots to be aware of the threat. Within a few months of his diagnosis, Gallaga, who now teaches screenwriting at Manila's College of Saint Benilde, became a public advocate for HIV+ people in the Philippines, where conservative social mores
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