Teenage pregnancies may increase by more than 20 percent during quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Commission on Population and Development official said.
Executive Director...
The coronavirus pandemic despite, 8,085,000 Filipinos in 2020, when the lockdown began in mid March, used modern methods of Family Planning, a 6 percent...
Philippine population authorities have revealed that more than eight million women and men were able to obtain modern family planning services in 2020 despite...
The United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Health, and the Commission on Population and Development have formed a nationwide campaign...
Tabaco City Mayor Krisel Lagman (right) receives the plaque of appreciation from Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) Region V, represented by Regional Director...
The Commission on Population and Development has urged proponents of community pantries to include contraceptives such as condoms and pills as necessary goods in...
Senator Win Gatchalian reiterated the need to ensure continued education and protection programs for vulnerable girls to combat gender-based violence amid new lockdown and...
"Despite the gains, there is still a long way to go in breaking the patriarchal mindset that normalizes violence."
The pandemic brought not only health...
"The grim numbers carry sad stories at best, and horrific ones at worst."
Alarming statistics were released last week at a press conference jointly held...
The Makabayan party-list bloc in the House of Representatives has sought a congressional investigation on the rising incidence of teenage pregnancies.
In House Resolution 1571,...
The latest civil-registry statistics from the Philippine Statistics Authority for 2019 revealed that births among girls ages 15 years old and below have gone...
