Atienza hits condom distribution plan

Senior Deputy Minority Leader and Rep. Lito Atienza of Buhay party-list has criticized the Department of Health’s (DOH) plan to distribute condoms in schools as part of its program to implement the Reproductive Health Law.

“The funds to buy condoms can be used to buy medicines that are needed more by our poor countrymen, particularly for tuberculosis and maintenance medicines for diseases like diabetes and hypertension. The message for Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial is not to waste government funds on condoms,” Atienza said in Filipino.