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So, people are conflicted about practicing safe sex because their families don’t give them enough emotional support? How about being a responsible adults?
“In an interview over Radio Veritas, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Health Care (ECHC) executive secretary Fr. Dan Vicente Cancino said the ‘less than ideal’ setup in families may be a factor for the continued increase in the number of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) cases in the country,” reports Evelyn Macairan in The Philippine Star.
Cancino stated, “Many young people these days have a distorted concept of sexuality due to the lack of what we call family values formation. Because of this, they were deprived of a deep parent-child relationship. The familial ties have been damaged. It is no wonder that many of our patients come from broken families, dysfunctional families.”
The report noted: “The Department of Health (DOH) recently announced that it has recorded this year the highest number of new HIV/AIDS cases since 1984. The DOH had registered as of February this year 646 new cases, a 33% increase from the same period last year.”
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