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The provincial government, through the Provincial Health Office (PHO) aims to increase media involvement in the information campaign on population control being a big factor in reproductive health.
         Provincial Health Officer Reymoses Cabagnot called on the support of the local media practitioners who attended the media forum on family planning/reproductive health Tuesday last week at JJ's Dimsum.
         The activity was in observance of Family Planning Month celebration anchored on the theme, Safe Motherhood for Family Planning. DOH it na!
         It was part of the Promotion and Advancement of Development Efforts and Intervention on Population-Health-Environment (PHE) of the city government in partnership with the Population Commission (PopCom) and International Council on Management of Population Programme (ICOMP) with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 6th Country Programme of Assistance.
         The provincial and city governments, PopCom, ICOMP and the UNFPA aim to inform majority of the public, especially those living in poverty line whom they consider most vulnerable to reproductive health (RH) problems.
         They anchor the campaign on the four pillars of RH which are responsible parenthood, birth spacing, informed choice and respect for life.
         Health officials also target to inform the public about the ten elements of RH which include family planning, maternal and child health and nutrition, prevention and management of R tract infection, including sexually transmitted infection and HIV/AIDS, adolescent RH, prevention and management of abortion and its complications, prevention and management of breast and reproductive tract cancers and other gynecological conditions, education and counseling of sexuality, men's RH and evolvement, violence against women and children, and prevention and management of infertility.
         Bohol Poverty Reduction Management Office (BPRMO) Head Antonieto Pernia, for his part, vowed to integrate the campaign on reproductive health in relation to population, health and environment in the capability building seminars for the different cooperatives under the BPRMO.
         Pernia, who is also the head of the Provincial Government Media Affairs (PGMA) office, explained that he can use his linkages in tapping the with the local, regional and national media groups for the campaign.
         Also, the PGMA will come up with films and presentations on population, health and environment that will be shown to the different barangays in the province.
         Pernia said he will tap BPRMO community organizers in the different towns to coordinate in disseminating the films and presentations that will be shown. (AV-PGMA)

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