For the past 4 years, Fabes, Nadia and I have hosted It Begins With You – a HIV & AIDS awareness campaign that is jointly organized by MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme), MaSHM (Malaysian Society of HIV Medicine) and MAC (Malaysian AIDS Council). This year, the grand finale was held at Berjaya Times Square and was hosted by Nadia and I. Students came from all over, UiTM, UPM, IMU, MU. There were all sorts of activities from Angry Birds HIV Edition made by IMU…

The idea of the game was to throw the angry birds which represent things like compassion towards pigs that represent the sitgmas surrounding HIV to even snake and ladders HIV edition by UiTM.

Of course, when it comes to things like HIV prevention, there’s always the link to contraceptives… and that’s when we discovered this thing that looked like butter but it’s a proudly Malaysian made male contraceptive!!!

Loads of them were given away for free. There were performances by even Dayang Nurfaizah…

a hot hot hot Malaysian artist who can speak all 3 – Bahasa Malaysia, English and Mandarine fluently – Winnie K

Plus games like treasure hunt and sandwhich board signing competition to spread the awareness of HIV & AIDS to the public.

The event lasted almost 5 hours – at the wrap up… there was a surprise that even Nadia and I weren’t informed of… a FLASH MOB by the future doctors of Malaysia!!!

There’s so much to learn about HIV and AIDS. Every year, the Pagi Show learns more and more. This year was no different. We’ll do it all over again. For more information on HIV and AIDS, goto The Malaysian AIDS Council.