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Children as young as 12 can legally have sex. Until they are 18 if they want to access HIV testing or contraceptives they need to get parental consent. This issue recently came to a head when two boys asked us for help with STI symptoms.

This has been our biggest and most impactful year yet - and we couldn’t have done our work without your generous support. Thank you for being a part of our journey in 2016.

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 province of Palawan. Our High School Team taught over 16,000 students from Narra to Roxas and our Clinical Team traveled almost to Malaysia to deliver reproductive health services.

The Philippines now has 11 cities with an HIV infection rate greater than 5%. Puerto Princesa is one of these cities. Find out how we can slow this down and avoid a health crisis in Palawan.

"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 few men and stared in disbelief.

Ami tags along to watch a sexual health seminar at PSU and is shocked by some of the questions students asked. "Is sex really that bad?"

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.

Roots of Health weighs in on the Reproductive Health debate that is raging in the Philippines.

Ami Evangelista Swanepoel looks back at what Roots of Health has accomplished in it's first year of operation.

Myths about sexually transmitted diseases that Roots of Health has encountered during our work in Pulang Lupa.