A TOTAL of 2,413 students in Bacolod, enrolled in Grades 7 to 12, have attended a symposium on teenage pregnancy conducted by the City Population Office in separate five secondary schools recently.
These were in Domingo Lacson National High School in Brgy. 12; Romanito Maravilla Sr. NHS in Brgy. Estefania; Luisa Medel NHS in Brgy. Tangub; Teofilo Gensoli NHS in Brgy. Vista Alegre; and Mariano Medalla Integrated School in Barangay Pahanocoy.
City Population Office-OIC Ernie Asoy said the symposia aim to educate young people aged 10 to 19 years old about adolescent health, as well as the development programs of their office.
The symposium teaches the correct and right information on adolescence, sexuality, gender, reproductive health, sexual activities resulting in sexually transmitted diseases like Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/Aids).
By sharing this information, they aim to lessen the incidence of early pregnancy and repeated pregnancy among young people, he added.
Speakers included Asoy, who talked on the rationale and objective of the symposium; John Christopher Bais—teenage pregnancy; Benybeth Agbones—adolescent situationer; with facilitators Corazon Samson, Jerrilyn Tambasen, Edmund Javellana, Girlie Moraca, and David Villalva.
Asoy said they are scheduled to conduct the same symposium to two more secondary schools in Bacolod this September, and four more in October. (PR)