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The document discusses several topics related to social issues in the Philippines including HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, and bullying. For HIV/AIDS, it summarizes that cases have risen in recent years which could be due to greater awareness but some have had the virus long-term without knowing. Teenage pregnancy has also increased significantly from 2000-2010 despite declining teen marriages. The document also outlines the Philippines' anti-bullying law and efforts to address bullying, particularly of LGBT youth, in schools.

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Local Literature

The document discusses several topics related to social issues in the Philippines including HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, and bullying. For HIV/AIDS, it summarizes that cases have risen in recent years which could be due to greater awareness but some have had the virus long-term without knowing. Teenage pregnancy has also increased significantly from 2000-2010 despite declining teen marriages. The document also outlines the Philippines' anti-bullying law and efforts to address bullying, particularly of LGBT youth, in schools.

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HIV/AIDS

MANILA, Philippines -- Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle has called on the priests, religious,
seminarians and laypeople of the Archdiocese of Manila to learn more
about HIV/AIDS. Education about HIV and AIDS is necessary for the local church to come up
with an effective and appropriate pastoral response to the silent epidemic, Tagle wrote in a
circular published on the Manila archdiocese’s website

- Archbishop Tagle (2009)

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Kahel Jay Sta. Maria, head life coach of LoveYourself, Inc., said this increase did not necessarily
mean more people had been infected.

"This is both good and bad: good because people are becoming more aware of HIV and thus
decide to get tested; bad because some people have had the virus for so long but were
unaware until they got tested," Sta. Maria said in Filipino during a phone interview.

- Sta. Maria (2017)

-http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/02/01/HIV-cases-increase-2016-DOH.html

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While the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the Philippines is still low, the country is one of only seven
countries globally where the number of new HIV cases has increased by over 25 per cent from 2001 to
2009. New infections are largely concentrated among key populations with specific risk behaviors, such
as unprotected male-to-male sex, transactional sex and intravenous drug use.

Primary prevention of HIV infection for key populations has to start in adolescence mainly because
infections now occur at a younger age: 20–29. On average, the initiation to sex and drug use is between
14 and 19 years old.

– UNICEF 2015

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TEENAGE PREG

In the Philippines, according to the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study by the
University of the Philippines Population Institute (Uppi) and the Demographic Research and
Development Foundation, 26 percent of our Filipino youth nationwide from ages 15 to 25
admitted to having a premarital sex experience. What’s worse is that 38 percent of our youth
are already in a live-in arrangement.

- Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality (2002)

-http://youthproblemsinthephilippines.weebly.com/teenage-pregnancy.html

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In the Philippines, pregnancy among girls under the age of 20 increased by 65 percent over a
10-year period, from 2000-2010, despite a reverse trend in teen marriages, which is on the
decline, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

In 2010, live births by teenage mothers registered with the NSO were 207,898, compared with
126,025 in 2000. On the other hand, teenage marriages registered with the agency shows a
slow but steady decline from 14.8 per cent in 2000 to 13 per cent in 2010. – NSO

- National Statistics Office (2010)

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According to Cebu Normal University, Cebu City, Philippines GIDDENS (2001), cultural factors
refer to culture as the way of life of the members of a society, or of groups within a society. It
includes how people dress, their marriage customs and family life, their patterns of work,
religious ceremonies and leisure pursuits.

- Cebu Normal University, Cebu City, Philippines GIDDENS (2001)

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BULLYING

According to Luistro (2016), “… 93 school divisions in seven regions have their respective pool
of trainers, who are expected to roll out and to capacitate school personnel in handling child
abuse and bullying cases.”

- Luistro (2016)

-https://nobullying.com/bullying-philippines/

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“Prohibiting bullying against LGBT youth was an important first step,” Thoreson(2017) said.
“Now lawmakers and school administrators should take concrete steps to make those
protections meaningful and promote respect for LGBT youth throughout the Philippines’ school
system.”

- Thoreson (2017)

-https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/21/philippines-lgbt-students-face-bullying-abuse

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Lawmakers in the Philippines have recognized that bullying in secondary schools is a problem
and have taken important steps to address it, Human Rights Watch said. In 2013, the Philippine
Congress passed an anti-bullying law and the Department of Education issued
regulations prohibiting bullying on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. During
the 2016 presidential campaign, too, Rodrigo Duterte vocally condemned bullying and
discrimination against LGBT people.

- Human Rights Watch (2013)

-https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/21/philippines-lgbt-students-face-bullying-abuse

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“Any severe or repeated use of written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act or gesture, or
any combination of these by one or more students directed at another student that has the effect of
actually causing or placing the latter in a reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to
the property, creating a hostile environment at school and Infringing on the rights of the other students
at school.” — Anti-Bullying Act of 2012

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