THE negative impacts of the pandemic on health and wellbeing have spread far and wide among members of the Philippine population, and its adverse effects have crept to the level of Filipino adolescents, according to the Commission on Population and Development’s (PopCom) executive director.

Speaking before a global audience at the recent Ecosoc Youth Forum on the occasion of World Health Day, Undersecretary for Population and Development (PopDev) Juan Antonio Perez III, MD, MPH disclosed that the Philippines, as a country currently under community quarantines, has witnessed the health crisis greatly bearing down on young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH).