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Princess Manzon: Ex-PBB Housemate Supports Young People for RH
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Princess Manzon backs young people for RH
Princess Manzon, former housemate of the hit reality TV show Pinoy Big Brother openly expressed her support to all young people supporting and advocating the much debated Reproductive Health Bill. Like Dingdong Dantes, Princes is one of the celebrities who are openly supporting the bill and is helping out initiatives to encourage others to do so as well.
For her, it is but necessary that young people be empowered through correct information and education so that they may choose what is right for them and to protect them from early sex, unwanted pregnancies, sexually-transmitted infections and even clandestine abortions.
Princess, during her PBB stint
This year, the Youth Consortium for Reproductive Health - a national network of different youth-led organizations came up with an online campaign for young people called iProtect Campaign. This online campaign made use of social media to spread its messages to the young people.
iProtect Campaign bore the following messages:
iProtect My Future: by protecting and prioritizing goals one would achieve finishing school enabling him/her to land a good job for him/her self and his/her family.
iProtect My Loved Ones: by protecting one's self from unprotected sex & being responsible, one ensures that his or her loved ones are respected and maintaining a status of integrity to the self, family and others.
iProtect My Body: by protecting one's body is ensuring one's dignity and self worth.
iProtect My Health: by encouraging other young people to live a healthy and protected lifestyle and by nurturing a well & responsive health-seeking behavior.
iProtect My Mind: by protecting your self from illegal substances that pollutes one's mind, one maintains a clear mind & healthy body.
iProtect My Rights: by keeping one's self informed of pertinent issues that would affect young people, one protects his or her rights and in protecting & safeguarding it.
iProtect My Society: by loving one's self, one ensures that his family, community & the society are protected, respected and is harmoniously co-existing. Young people's roles in nation-building is very important.
During the taping of iProtect Campaign
Princess volunteered to be one of the voices of the young people in addressing their rights to reproductive & sexual health. She offered her time and talent as her way of supporting young people's needs. Princess' partner, Tom Mott is also supportive and goes with Princess in advocating young people's rights to reproductive health.
Youth leaders from different organization supported
the RH Campaign through iProtect
For more information about the Youth Consortium for Reproductive Health, you may add them in Facebook:
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http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2009/04/15/IB_MWCNP.pdf
KEY POINTS
• Without contraceptive use in the Philippines, there would be 1.3 million more unplanned births, 0.9 million more induced abortions and 3,500 more maternal deaths each year.
• More than half of all pregnancies in the Philippines are unintended, with the highest proportions in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Central and Eastern Visayas, and Caraga.
• Three in 10 Filipino women at risk for unintended pregnancy do not practice contraception. These women account for nearly seven in 10 unintended pregnancies.
• Poor women are especially likely to need assistance in preventing unintended pregnancy. The 35% of women aged 15--49 who are poor account for 53% of unmet need for contraception.
• Investing in increased access to the full range of modern contraceptive methods and services to support effective use would reap savings on medical care for
pregnant women and newborns. Reducing unintended pregnancy would help women have the number of children they desire and would save money that could be directed toward improving and expanding other needed services.
• All levels of the Philippine government, the private sector and the international community should increase their investment in modern contraception—for poor Filipino women in particular—to save women's lives and support healthy families.
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