Over the past few years, the program has trained more than 800 students from 37 schools to become peer AIDS educators.
Which is all to say that she has accepted her unlikely role as a sought-after speaker and AIDS educator with grace.
Both work as AIDS educators and advocates for people with the disease.
Migrants may be the hardest group for AIDS educators to reach.
Perfectly cast as an AIDS educator for the 1990's, he can hardly fail to do good.
After educating himself, however, he decides to dedicate his life to becoming an AIDS educator, speaking at schools, and doing radio shows.
He voted against proposals to require AIDS educators to stress abstinence in every lesson.
"I am an AIDS educator, but there was no hope I could offer her."
One obstacle to prevention efforts on the island, AIDS educators say, is the view that men need not use condoms with their wives.