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'Sakit ng lalake'.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Michael L. Tan
I COULD have kicked myself. I was taking my lunch after delivering a plenary lecture at the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID) when I realized I had forgotten to mention something very important: "sakit ng lalake" (men's diseases).
PSMID, which is composed of health professionals working in the area of communicable diseases, had invited me to speak about HIV/AIDS and STIs, with special focus on whether Filipinos had outgrown the stigma around these illnesses.
My answer to the question about stigma was an unequivocal no, pointing out that this stigma was in fact contributing to the spread of these STIs. I thought of sharing some of the points I made during my lecture to explain how this happens and will eventually get back to this point about sakit ng lalake.
Not in my home, please
I started out the lecture by presenting some figures from the 2003 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). I know this is the third column in which I'm mentioning that survey but that nationwide study conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO), covering 13,000 women and 5,000 men, is a rich mine of information on many health issues.
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