Aug 2017
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.
Dec 2016
Jun 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.
Feb 2016
Apr 2013
Jun 2011
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?"
Jan 2011
Roots of Health weighs in on the Reproductive Health debate that is raging in the Philippines.
May 2010
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.