Group asks gov’t to implement comprehensive sex education

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQ 03/17/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Recent reports of adolescents contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have prompted a women’s rights advocacy group to call for implementing comprehensive sexual education (CSE) to help children and teenagers avoid sexually transmitted diseases. In…

Siquijor opens Prov’l Teen Center, a first in Central Visayas

PR 07/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Siquijor teens now have more places to go to for help and advice on matters of the HEART with the establishment of its Provincial Teen Center in addition to the municipal teen centers…

RH Care Info: Your 24/7 free website on reproductive health

Rhobie Alburo Ruaya 12/09/2020

Let’s take a quick review of our lessons from school. Reproductive health is considered one of the most important topics taught from early education until college because it is not only a system in our bodies, it…

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Editorial 12/18/2016

The distribution of condoms in schools isn’t as alarming as the Church and its allies make it out to be, though it does represent a more proactive government finally implementing the Reproductive Health Act on the grassroots…

SONA FROM THE HEART

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Carmel Loise Matus, Edison Delos Angeles, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Julit C. Jainar, Nestle L. Semilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/25/2016

True to form, the campaign against illegal drugs and federalism were among the issues emphasized by President Rodrigo Duterte during his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). But what some local government executives expected the President…

RH law foes warn against Implanon

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/03/2015

Opponents of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law warned women not to use Implanon, a new contraceptive introduced by the regional implementation team (RIT) of the law. In yesterday’s press conference,  Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer, country…

EDITORIAL: Teenage pregnancies

12/03/2014

The Population Commission’s disclosure that a 12-year-old girl became a mother should be cause for concern among Cebuanos whether they be in Metro Cebu or in the countryside. The circumstances behind the girl’s pregnancy were  withheld for…

Magpale wants sex education subjects in school curriculum

Peter L. Romanillos 11/11/2014

To help curb teenage pregnancies and other issues confronting adolescents, a local legislator is planning to introduce sex education subjects in the curriculum for sixth graders to college students in Cebu province. The Cebu Provincial Adolescent Health…

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