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Guno Kem Ye: A Halfway Maternity Home for T’boli Mothers
With many T'boli mothers averse to the idea of giving birth in hospitals, a culturally sensitive halfway maternity home seeks to give them a safe space where they can stay for free a week before their scheduled delivery date
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With many T'boli mothers averse to the idea of giving birth in hospitals, a culturally sensitive halfway maternity home seeks to give them a safe space where they can stay for free a week before their scheduled delivery date
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Gov’t told to speed up implementation of national feeding programs
Senator Hontiveros also urged government to scale up its efforts to protect pregnant women and their babies from hunger. The senator said that the first 1,000 days of children are crucial to their proper growth, emphasizing the need to protect them from diseases and other complications caused by hunger. She noted that sufficient funding and support for pregnant women and their newborns in the first 1,000 days is mandated by the Kalusugan at Nutrisyon ng Mag-Nanay Act.
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Senator Hontiveros also urged government to scale up its efforts to protect pregnant women and their babies from hunger. The senator said that the first 1,000 days of children are crucial to their proper growth, emphasizing the need to protect them from diseases and other complications caused by hunger. She noted that sufficient funding and support for pregnant women and their newborns in the first 1,000 days is mandated by the Kalusugan at Nutrisyon ng Mag-Nanay Act.
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PCPD's 2020 Annual Report Is Out
In 2020, PCPD made the decision to change direction and go into social enterprise by setting up a general hospital that will be focused on the health and wellbeing of women and children.
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In 2020, PCPD made the decision to change direction and go into social enterprise by setting up a general hospital that will be focused on the health and wellbeing of women and children.
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Pregnancy among Minors in the Philippines at an Alarming Rate —PopCom
According to POPCOM, the number of births among girls has risen in nine years straight since 2011. The PSA’s civil-registry statistics in 2019 showed that births among girls ages 15 years old and below have increased by seven percent, compared to 2018 record, from 62,341 to 62,510. In 2019, some 2,411 girls aged 10 to 14 gave birth or almost seven births from this age group every day.
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According to POPCOM, the number of births among girls has risen in nine years straight since 2011. The PSA’s civil-registry statistics in 2019 showed that births among girls ages 15 years old and below have increased by seven percent, compared to 2018 record, from 62,341 to 62,510. In 2019, some 2,411 girls aged 10 to 14 gave birth or almost seven births from this age group every day.
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OUR PROJECTS
- Fast-Tracking Demand Generation for and Delivery of Reproductive Health Services among Urban Poor Women in Bagong Silang and Camarin in Caloocan City, Metro Manila
- Promoting Long-Acting Reversible Contraception as a Strategy for Sustainability and Reducing Unmet Need for Contraception
- A Baseline Research on the Girl-Children of Migrant Families in Vulnerable Communities
- Locating the Indigenous People Communities of Mindanao in the Throes of Migration and Human Trafficking: Profiles and Cases of IPs in Transition
- Promoting Youth Participation in Adolescent Health Information and Service Utilization
- Park Avenue Initiative: Family-Centered and Peer Learning Approach in Promoting Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Rights among the Youth and Young Adults in Urban Poor Families in Pasay City
OUR PRODUCTS
- Listening to Our Teacher: An Exploratory Study of the Views, Attitudes and Practices of Teachers and Parents of Catholic High Schools on Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Sexuality Education
- Ala Tsamba: Buhay RH sa Payatas
- Population and Development Education Teaching Modules for Catholic School
- Hawak-Kamay: Key Findings of a Research on Reproductive Health Practices of the Youth in Poor Communities in Pasay City
- Bargaining versus Neoclassical Model of Fertility in the Philippines
- Investigating Men's Pronatalism in Selected Provinces in the Philippines
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