ILOILO City – The Commission on Population (Popcom) Region 6 launched a mobile app to further strengthen the awareness campaign on adolescent health (AH).
Dubbed as “AHlam Na,” the app aims to provide necessary information on sexual and reproductive health and development of young adults.
Some 150 Grade 12 students from various schools in the city attended the launch of the app at a hotel along General Luna Street last Thursday.
“There is a need to innovate strategies in meeting with the evolving needs of young people to address their sexual and reproductive health needs to information and service,” said Popcom regional director Harold Marshall.
Popcom Region 6 has partnered with Save the Children, Family Planning Organization of the Philippines and the Iloilo State College of Fisheries to develop the mobile application, which is now downloadable using smartphones.
The mobile application has features like a fact-or-bluff quiz on puberty, sexuality and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
The results of the quiz could be shared on social media to encourage more young people to download and use the app.
Popcom regional assistant director Rosemarie Hubag recognized that young people nowadays are “digitally wired.”
Hubag said the most convenient way for them to acquire information about adolescent health is through the internet or their smartphones. (With a report from PNA/PN)
