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Flipping Your Uterus and Other Ways to Prevent Pregnancy
Some of the beliefs we encounter at Pulang Lupa are wrong, but are generally harmless. Others, such as the belief that drinking soap will cure an STI, are dangerous. Last week our topic during our...
View ArticleMaternal Health in May
As we approach June, I find it incredible to believe that Roots of Health has been in operation for nearly an entire year. It was June 2009 that we held the first Roots of Health Board meeting during...
View ArticleWhy Reproductive Health Doesn’t Equate to Abortion
I get so frustrated with how the debate for reproductive health here in the Philippines nearly always gets shut down because of the strong insistence of many, particularly those influenced by the...
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Roots of Health in 2011
Warm greetings from Puerto Princesa, Palawan! 2011 has gotten off to a great start for Roots of Health and we are all very excited about our plans for the coming year. Here is a sneak preview of our...
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Is Sex Really That Bad?
Like most college students in the Philippines, students in Palawan have not received any formal sex education from their schools or their families. The great majority of students have not grown up with...
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Voter Education: Notes from the Field
“Wala akong karapatan bumoto.” (I don’t have a right to vote). I stood in the hot, meeting area in Aplaya, our community by the sea, in the middle of an education seminar, surrounded by 30 women and a...
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Palawan’s HIV Problem
Two weeks ago I attended a two-day workshop as part of Puerto Princesa City’s Local AIDS Council. Mayor Lucilo Bayron recently created the Council in order to address the rapidly growing problem of HIV...
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2015 Annual Report
We are proud to present the 2015 Annual Report. It was a year of major scaling of our programming in order to reach more women and young people not only in Puerto Princesa City, but in the whole...
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Looking Back at 2016
As I look back at the last year, I am in amazed at what Roots of Health has accomplished. This has been our biggest and most impactful year yet – and we couldn’t have done our work without your...
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When Parental Consent Does Children Harm
Last week, a boy contacted me through our Facebook page and said that he and a friend believed they had tulo or gonorrhea. He said his friend got it from a bakla (gay person) and that he got it from a...
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