43 Arrested health Workers

“They are not communist rebels but physician and health workers.”

We can hear these words from the supporters and love-ones of the 43 people who were allegedly arrested by the militants while undergoing health-skills training in Morong, Rizal. The arrested people are members of Health Alliance for Democracy and were in town to conduct medical training.

The arrested were having their health training in the said town when the troops raided the house, blindfolded them and forcibly took them to the headquarters. On the strength of a warrant arrest, the troops searched the area and seized many homemade explosive device, some hand grenades, cellular phones and campaign materials of a party list group.

Having detained, the supporters of the arrested health workers are seeking justice for them because they are not member of NPA nor rebels but workers who helped people with badly needs. They want the arrested people be released and reinvestigate the said case.

"FUBU"

So called F’K buddies (Fubu) mark sexual and romantic relations of call-center workers, there were some issues on the news today regarding the Sexually Transmitted Disease or the STD which were the mainly victims were the call-center agents.

The Fubu phenomenon is a risky sexual behaviors there workers have higher exposure to than their counterparts in other industries.

In contrast to casual sex, the Fubu phenomenon involves regular non-romantic sexual intercourse. It is said that more men than women engage in this behavior.

There are many cases appearing like same sex intercourse, unprotected sex which means that they are not protected during the intercourse and having more than one sexual partner. These cases results to the involvement of some workers to STD or AIDS, high risk of having this disease for call-center workers is now increasing.

One way to determine the people behind this is by conducting surveys and performing some necessary actions for the call-center agents. This helps the officials to determine who were engage in sex within office premises, this surveys revealed people who were infected by the disease.

It is very important for us to be aware with this problem; young people nowadays are different from young people during the era of our parents. We should be very sensitive in our safety, before anything else, be responsible enough to engage in sex and think hard before going to the peak of excitement.