In line with my recent blog entry about the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and HIV in the Philippines, I stumbled upon yet again another blog entry of another blogger regarding this issue. This blog entry I came across, does not really have anything to do with the Reproductive Health Bill, but the information stated within this blog entry can be considered more reasons on why the RH Bill should finally be passed into a law here in the Philippines. As I have previously mentioned in my other blog entry, one of the reason why the RH Bill was penned is to prevent, and eventually stop, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and HIV here in the Philippines.
In this blog entry I stumbled upon, he wrote about the Department of Health’s (DOH) public announcement that HIV, among other sexually transmitted diseases, is the worts kind of epidemic the country will be facing in the future. The entry goes:
“The Department of Health (DOH) said the rise in the number of Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases among Filipino adolescents could become “tomorrow’s epidemic.”
On Wednesday, during the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) presentation of the “State of the World’s Children,” DOH National Epidemiology Center director Dr. Eric Tayag said that in 2010, one out of three HIV patients is from the 15-24 year old bracket.
The number of Filipino adolescents who are HIV-positive increased drastically in the last four years, from 44 cases in 2006 to 484 in 2010.
According to the UNICEF report, the Philippines is one of only seven countries where HIV cases increased by more than 25 percent from 2001 to 2009.
The highest number of new HIV cases was recorded in 2010, where 1,591 new cases were reported.”
The moment I read this report, I was taken aback by the staggering number of reported cases of Filipinos affected by the sexually transmitted disease called HIV. I was also surprised because the more modernize our country gets, the more unfortunate things like this happen. The way I see this, it just goes to show how a lot of Filipinos are uninformed of things such as this. A lot of Filipinos are unaware of HIV and the problems it cause people that is why a lot are infected with this disease.
This is quite similar to what I have previously posted, but I wanted to do another entry like this because the number of Filipinos infected with HIV is surprisingly high. This just goes to show that a lot of Filipinos are engaging in sexual activities without using proper protection that is why they are infected with this disease. If the RH Bill is passed and becomes a law, a lot of Filipinos will have access to protection such as condoms and the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and AIDS will be prevented. Since there is no cure discovered yet for this kind of disease, as of the moment, the provisions written within the RH Bill such as promoting the use of condoms is the best possible solution we currently have for this problem.
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