Starting next year 2017, the Department of Health (DOH) will distribute condoms in schools.
It is as part of "business unusual" strategy of the DOH in the midst of ever-increasing number of HIV-AIDS cases among young people.
According to Secretary Paulyn Ubial, after introducing the strategy to Department of Education (DepEd) and after undergoing counseling they will immediately distribute the condoms.
Schools, authorities, teachers, principals and even the healthcare providers should be ready for the steps that will be given by the said department.
Its goal is to reduce sexually transmitted infections such as HIV-AIDS.
“The youngest recorded HIV patient in the country is 11 years old,”
Ubial said, citing results of recent studies showing that Filipinos are
engaging in sex more and at a very young age.
According to Ubial, the DOH is not encouraging the youth to use condom and only distributing it for their protection.
