Risk at getting Hiv going barebone
If you play with fire there would be a fair risc that you get burned. Playing at the highway almost surdenly would get you runned over by a car.
Just as the above examples the risc of getting Hiv increases dramatically when not acting as wisely as most people do. Not using a condom when having sex with girls from these areas is like playing on the highway - sooner or later you will be hitted.
So when comparing stats for getting hitted by car with stats for getting Hiv at the Philippines you really should find a stat describing getting hitted when playing on the highway.
Don't expose yourself or others to the risk of getting Hiv!
Put a helmet on that soldier!!!
When your sentry is at attention, make sure he got a helmet on his head. Look, gentlemen, whatever WHO and the other "experts" may say about STD's in the Philippines, you are a complete moron if you dont wrap that rascal. Consider a couple of things, CEBU is a busy port town ,that means sailors from all different countries, what happens when these guys get shore leave? They screw anything and everything that will hold still for it. This means you have a lot of HIV/STD infected specimens in the port areas, especially Cebu and Manila. A general rule of thumb is that the more likely contact with foreigners, the more likely to be HIV/Aides infected. You have a number of cases in which the Filipino husband or boyfriend working overseas returns home, bangs his honey as well as a few of the local girls and they end up dripping. Now in the provinces, girls are less likely to have HIV, however, they got other things to worry about.
Last year, they did a big survey down in my hometown of Davao, they got all kinds of girls, the streetwalkers to the ones in massage parlors, bars and videokies, very FEW cases of aides/hiv BUT a number of cases of syphyllis, the clap was well represented too.
True, it isn't as bad as Thailand, but that don't mean you should glove up. Even with the so called "non pro's"