calendar_today 10 February 2016

Access to Contraception to Mitigate Potential Impact of Zika Virus

Following the World Health Organization's declaration of the recent cluster of microcephaly cases as a global health emergency due to its strongly suspected link to the…

calendar_today 22 January 2016

Of Disasters and Childbirths: a Mother's Experience

Darlene Niña Amar of Catarman, Northern Samar cannot look back to the day her two children were born without recalling the horrid events that went along with them. On both…

calendar_today 13 January 2016

POOR WOMEN DECRY CUT IN CONTRACEPTIVES BUDGET

Women from poor communities in Manila fear that scrapping the Department of Health’s budget for contraceptives will cause an increase in unintended pregnancies, especially…

calendar_today 07 January 2016

Statement

Deletion of Contraceptives Budget a Cause for Alarm

Manila -- UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is expressing concern over the non-inclusion of contraceptives in the Philippine government’s 2016 national budget,…

calendar_today 01 January 2016

STATE OF THE WORLD POPULATION REPORT 2016

The State of World Population 2016   UNFPA’s State of World Population 2016 report shows that empowering today’s 10-year-old girls could yield huge demographic…

calendar_today 01 January 2016

LIFTING UP THE FILIPINO TEENAGE GIRL

Hope for our nation’s transformation lies in how well we invest in our teenage girls - their education, health, and employment prospects. This was the message of the…