My Article on Mulat Pinoy

Let Kids Know About Sex

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”– Robert M. Hutchins

“Ludicrous!” – I’m sure reactions are filled with sentiments like this, punctuated by an exclamation point. But is it? Knives and scissors are lethal, but we don’t keep kids away from them forever. We teach youngsters about them, and tell them at what age they’re allowed to use those objects. What’s the difference, then, between teaching them about sex?

Post It Up

So here's what's been keeping me busy these past couple of days.

I didn't have events to coordinate, and stuff to write about so I decided to make campaign posters for my office and our new clinic.

The Steady Rise

Whenever I tell people about the current statistics of HIV prevalence in our country, they always ask me about one thing - why is it going up? Let me try and answer this, but first, the actual numbers.

Extracted from Philippine DOH website

274 - New registered HIV cases in the Philippines for the month of February of this year, highest number in the history of the country
72% - Increase compared to February of 2011
235 - Acquired through sexual contact
87% - of 235 are from males who have sex with males
27% - of the HIV cases of February 2012 are from the ages of 15 -24 years old
10 - People are getting infected everyday
8,850 - Total reported cases of HIV in the country as of current

Top or Bottom?

HEED YE ALL. The following entry contains explicit sexual content. Read at your own risk.

Photo from zazzle.com

Which one are you? Why is it such a big issue? Why is everyone claiming to be top and yet there's a running joke circulating that there's a growing shortage of them? What is a top and a bottom anyway?

Here's the shiz you need to know.

268

The total number of newly registered HIV cases in the country for December 2011. Be informed. Be safe. Get tested.

Click here for the December 2011 registry.