Young Filipinos are helping change the way sexual and reproductive health is talked about by using social media to empower peers and challenge stigma. The “Adolescent Peer Champions for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)” initiative, supported by the United Nations Population Fund...
In a “macho culture” where the concept of family planning responsibility is usually passed to women, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) seeks responsible men to be like Drew Arellano. On Tuesday, the popular television host went viral on social media over his decision to undergo...
DKT Philippines Foundation's SODEX or Service Outreach and Distribution Extension Program Mobile Clinic was launched in Binangonan, Rizal on Wednesday, May 8. SODEX mobile clinic The bus is equipped to perform free bilateral tubal ligation on women and non-scalpel vasectomy on men. Family-planning...
The lack of confidence in raising children due to rising prices of goods and services is compelling Filipino couples to delay or deprioritize childbearing, a recent study conducted by the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) has disclosed. The same study, according to CPD Executive...
The Department of Health (DOH) and its partners highlighted the importance of family planning among Filipinos and underscored the urgent need to be more aware of its benefits. Healthy Pilipinas FB page As part of the culminating activity for the celebration of Family Planning...
Having been married for more than a decade, Vice President Sara Duterte surely has something to impart to newlywed couples who are starting their journey into married life. A couple enjoys the spectacular view of sunset in Manila. (Czar Dancel / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) As the guest speaker...
The Pasig City local government met with representatives from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), and the PATH Foundation Philippines Inc. (PFPI) to discuss the possible implementation of Project BUILD. Project BUILD...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) cited some gains in making family planning methods more accessible to Filipinos—ten years after the passage of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 or the RH law. More Filipinos have used family planning methods based on the 2022...
The Las Piñas City Health Office Family Planning team gave lectures and seminars on responsible parenting and family planning to the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. The CHO team first visited and conducted lectures at Barangay Almanza Uno covered court on Friday,...
President Duterte thinks that Filipino couples should only have up to three children as he cited the need for the government to "expand" to respond to the country's population growth. President Duterte (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Duterte made this statement after he inaugurated the new Dr....
Around 200 women on the reproductive stage joined the family planning caravan launched by the Las Pinas City government on Tuesday, March 29. Vice-Mayor April Aguilar said the family planning caravan, with the theme “Pamilyang Planado, Siguradong Panalo,” launched by the city government in...
A total of 100 women of reproductive age availed of free Progestin Sub- dermal implant (PSI) offered by the Las Pinas City government to prevent unplanned pregnancy. Mayor Imelda Aguilar said the team of City Health Office (CHO) under the supervision of Dra. Julie Gonzalez offered the PSI to all...
