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This made me think of you.
In the Philippines Filipinos do it (and how they do it! Think 85 million Filipinos) but a recent survey found that quite a number of them did not know what "doing it" led to.
Exactly a week into the government's Ligtas-Buntis campaign, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said couples with no notion of family planning lacked even the "very basic" knowledge of how children were conceived.
"They don't know how pregnancy happens. Many don't even understand that they have a uterus ... [It's] incredulous but it's true," said Dayrit at a media briefing yesterday.
A recent survey by the private polling firm Social Weather Stations found that only 30 percent of all Filipino couples practiced any form of family planning, either through artificial or natural means.
Of the 70 percent that did not use any method, the Department of Health (DoH) said 30 to 40 percent practiced family planning at one point but had stopped, while the remaining 30 percent had "no notion" at all or were considered "ignorant" of family planning.
Some of those who were ignorant did not know how conception took place, while some women even thought that their menstrual discharge came from the blood that flowed through their veins instead of as a result of the shredding of the uterine wall, Dayrit said.
"So you can just imagine why very few people practice family planning," he said.
Dayrit blamed their ignorance of sexual health and functions on the lack of education among Filipinos, especially the poor who tend to drop out of school and get pregnant early.
He said the values system in the country also contribu |
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