Anti-Pornography Act (RA 9775)

and the National Blood Services

Act of 1994 (RA 7719)
 Health Awareness

Critical analyzation on the impact of current health

trends, issues, and concerns
• Recommendation of ways in managing health issues,
trends, and concerns
The State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation building including us.
This is the reason why our government created law that will promote and
protect youth physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, psychological,
and social well-being. This module will enlighten us to the fundamental rights
of every child from all forms of neglect, cruelty and other conditions prejudicial
to his/her development. In addition to, this module entails the promotion and
encouragement of voluntary blood donation that instill public consciousness
that blood donation is a humanitarian act.
What is Pornography?

Pornography, representation of sexual behaviour in books, pictures,

statues, films, and other media that is intended to cause sexual
excitement. The distinction between pornography (illicit and
condemned material) and erotica (which is broadly tolerated) is
largely subjective and reflects changing community standards. The
word pornography, derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and
graphein (“to write”), was originally defined as any work of art or
literature depicting the life of prostitutes.
Child Pornography
Child pornography is pornography that unlawfully exploits children for sexual
stimulation. It may be produced with the direct involvement or sexual assault of a child
or it may be simulated child pornography. Abuse of the child occurs during the sexual
acts or lascivious exhibitions of genitals or pubic areas which are recorded in the
production of child pornography. Child pornography may use a variety of mediums,[
including writings, magazines, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound
recording, film, video, and video games. Child pornography may be created for profit or
other reasons.
Terms to note:
(a) “Child” refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or over, but is unable to fully take care of himself/herself from abuse,
neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition.
For the purpose of this Act, a child shall also refer to:
(1) a person regardless of age who is presented, depicted or portrayed as a child as defined herein; and
(2) computer-generated, digitally or manually crafted images or graphics of a person who is represented or who is made to appear
to be a child as defined herein.
(b) “Child pornography” refers to any representation, whether visual, audio, or written combination thereof, by electronic,
mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other means, of child engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.
(c) “Explicit Sexual Activity” includes actual or simulated –
(1) As to form:
(i) sexual intercourse or lascivious act including, but not limited to, contact involving genital to genital, oral to genital, anal to genital,
or oral to anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;
(2) bestiality;
(3) masturbation;
(4) sadistic or masochistic abuse;
(5) lascivious exhibition of the genitals, buttocks, breasts, pubic area and/or anus; or
(6) use of any object or instrument for lascivious acts
 d) “Internet address” refers to a website, bulletin board service, internet chat room or news group, or any other
internet or shared network protocol address.
(e) “Internet cafe or kiosk” refers to an establishment that offers or proposes to offer services to the public for the
use of its computer/s or computer system for the purpose of accessing the internet, computer games or related
services.
(f) “Internet content host” refers to a person who hosts or who proposes to host internet content in the Philippines.
(g) “Internet service provider (ISP)” refers to a person or entity that supplies or proposes to supply, an internet
carriage service to the public.

What is a Violation?
To hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to perform in the creation or production of any form of child
pornography;
(b) To produce, direct, manufacture or create any form of child pornography;
(c) To publish offer, transmit, sell, distribute, broadcast, advertise, promote, export or import any form of child pornography;
(d) To possess any form of child pornography with the intent to sell, distribute, publish, or broadcast: Provided. That possession
of three (3) or more articles of child pornography of the same form shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to sell, distribute,
publish or broadcast;
(e) To knowingly, willfully and intentionally provide a venue for the commission of prohibited acts as, but not limited to, dens,
private rooms, cubicles, cinemas, houses or in establishments purporting to be a legitimate business;
(f) For film distributors, theaters and telecommunication companies, by themselves or in cooperation with other entities, to
distribute any form of child pornography;
(g) For a parent, legal guardian or person having custody or control of a child to knowingly permit the child to engage, participate
or assist in any form of child pornography;
(h) To engage in the luring or grooming of a child;
(i) To engage in pandering of any form of child pornography;
(j) To willfully access any form of child pornography;
(k) To conspire to commit any of the prohibited acts stated in this section. Conspiracy to commit any form of child pornography
shall be committed when two (2) or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of any of the said
prohibited acts and decide to commit it; and
(l) To possess any form of child pornography.
The song includes the vulnerability of a child to commit mistake and to be abuse
by someone who is elder and more knowledgeable. You as a teenager are
consider as child based on your age in relation to Republic Act No. 9775 or the
AntiChild Pornography Act of 2009 defines the crime of child pornography.
Child pornography may also be syndicated if there are three (3) or more
persons confederating with one another. In this light, it is not only the victim
who can file a complaint, but the parents or guardians, relative within the third
degree, officer or social worker of a licensed child-caring institution or DSWD,
barangay chairman, law enforcement officer, at least three concerned
responsible citizens in the same place where the pornography occurs, and a
person who is knowledgeable of the law may do so. Also, if the victim is already
identified, he/she is subject to care, custody and treatment from the
Department of Social Welfare and Development. More so, an inter-agency
program shall also be established to prevent child pornography.
 This Act also defines the following:
1.“Grooming” refers to the act of preparing a child or someone who the offender
believes to be a child for sexual activity or sexual relationship by communicating
any form of child pornography.
2. “Luring” refers to the act of communicating, by means of a computer system,
with a child or someone who the offender believes to be a child for the purpose of
facilitating the commission of sexual activity or production of any form of child
pornography.
3.“Pandering” refers to the act of offering, advertising, promoting, representing or
distributing through any means any material or purported material that is
intended to cause another to believe that the material or purported material
contains any form of child pornography, regardless of the actual content of the
material or purported material.
Republic Act No. 7719 or the National Blood
Services Act of 1994
Once these children grew up as a proactive citizen of the country, they will be willingly help others by
rendering voluntary services. One of the emerging forms of voluntary service is blood donation.
Republic Act No. 7719 or the National Blood Services Act of 1994 aims to promote and encourage
voluntary blood donation by the citizenry, provide for adequate, safe and affordable and equitable
distribution of blood and blood products
Republic Act No. 7719, also known as the National Blood Services Act of
1994, promotes voluntary blood donation to provide sufficient supply of
safe blood and to regulate blood banks. This act aims to inculcate public
awareness that blood donation is a humanitarian act.
 In order to attain these aims, the Act provisions the establishment of a Blood Services Network which consists
of the following:

a. National Council for Blood Services and its various committees - serves as the governing body of the
network and is responsible for the approval of various policies on blood services.
b. Philippine National Blood Services - under its Blood Centers, it works on the recruitment, retention, and
care of voluntary blood donors, collection of blood from qualified donors, testing of units of blood for
infectious diseases, and the like.
c. Authorized Blood Collection Units and Facilities
d. Private and Public Hospital Blood Banks and Blood Stations
e. Non-Hospital Health Facilities f. National Reference Laboratories for Immunology and Immunohematolog
 Types of Blood Donations
There are several types of blood donations and one donor can help up to three patients.
A single unit of blood can be separated into different components such as red blood cells,
plasma and platelets.
Whole Blood is the most common and most flexible blood
donation. It is usually collected in one pint and used to help
multiple patients, by being separated into different
components.

 Plasma is collected through apheresis, which is the process that separates plasma from
other blood components. It has blood clotting factors needed to help trauma patients and
those battling certain diseases like cancer.

 Platelets are also collected through the apheresis process. Once platelets have
been selected from the donor’s blood, the red blood cells and other fluids are
returned to the donor. Cancer patients are the primary recipients of platelets as
they play a vital role in cancer treatment.

 Double red cell donation is the collection of only red cells through the apheresis
process. It allows donors to give double the amount of a whole blood donation. It can
be used for anyone suffering from blood loss.
The Importance of Donating Blood
Today, most medical care depends on a steady supply of blood from donors, as one in
seven people entering the hospital need blood. For Moffitt, as cancer care increases, so
does the demand for blood,plasma and platelet donations. An adequate amount of blood
is needed in all health care facilities to meet the urgent need for patients facing trauma
and other lifesaving procedures, such as blood transfusions – which saves millions of lives
each year. Donating blood is a simple procedure that can be done within an hour.