Depo Provera, Wikipedia, etc.

Tox is a remnant of the hunter-gatherer tribes of Cagayan (northern Philippines) who, from time to time, brings me top of the line (read: organic) produce: peanuts fresh from the earth, lasuna (small, native onions), babal (young mung beans). If in dire need, she sells many others - glutinous rice (diket), bennek (fresh-water shells), bananas, free-range chicken. She's a subsistence farmer, vendor, a tire mechanic, that also wields her buneng (bolo knife) and climbs trees to cut wayward branches for a fee. In one word: healthy.

She is also a member of the 4Ps or Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. 
One day, Tox sold to me one of her produce ... because she ran out of cash for the purchase of "depo."

"What?" I asked.

She replied that it was an injectable she will need to purchase from "doktora's" pharmacy, saying it was partly subsidized by the government. This was a few months after the passing of the controversial Reproductive Health law.

Depo Provera is a brand of contraceptives from injectables to implants which have been previously posted at Wikipedia as a controversial drug, dangerous, or having adverse effect on users. It has the active ingredient depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or DMPA— associated with venous thromboembolism[1] (which can lead to a life-threatening blood clot in the lungs), severe vision loss and blindness[2] ^,[3] (retinal venous occlusion), breast cancer,[4] delayed return of fertility, and weight gain.

What is so special about this drug brand?

It is openly administered by the Philippine Government as mandatory contraceptive for women under the 4Ps. The Population Research Institute reported that family planning partners such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), and others have found their ways in third-world governments to inject more vulnerable women with this risky contraceptive.

In the weeks following Tox's use of the said injectable, her face and body sagged, from the previously robust one. Our group has then started posting on FaceBook about the sneaky administration of depo provera on the uninformed women, and then Wikipedia changed.

Previously a mine of valuable information, Wikipedia have deleted its entry on depo provera. Is it just the Philippine portal or version (or whatever you may call it)? I wondered. How much content have been edited or removed at Wikipedia, was my other worry (talk about [un]necessary stressors). How many sites have been censoring themselves for the sake of corrupt regulatory (government) practices? More than the removal of the depo provera entry, I have become more worried about the so-called freedom of expression!

Not to be defeated, though, Firefox gave me Tor - "Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

Tox is back to her old, healthy self, anyway. Maybe, the medication has stopped. She's still a member of the 4Ps, but if Tox had been a little vulnerable, or not the survivor that she is, I doubt she'd bounce back that easy.