THE Quezon City government wants the mandatory inclusion of the reproductive health, including the management and control of sexually transmitted infections and the importance in the use of condoms in its public school curriculum for high school students in a bid to heighten their level of awareness.
The health board proposed the measure and even recommended the provision of reproductive health supplies in schools, especially condoms.
“We can have health demonstrations in schools to teach students proper condom use,” city health officer Verdades Linga said.
She said it is “imperative” to promote condom use even in the workplace.
“What the health board will be doing is strengthen condom use in QC and erase the stigma that has always been associated with it,” she added.
She also recommended to Mayor Herbert Bautista to put up condom vending machines in strategic sites.
“We hope to make a difference with these initiatives,” she said in a statement.
“To date, there is an intensive effort from the city health department to manage and control the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in the city. This was made evident with the increased investments made for the city’s HIV programs—from less than P5 million annually prior to 2012 to P24 million in 2014.”