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01 January 2016
Press Release
UNFPA Announces Master Plan to Protect Women and Girls in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan
Two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan caused unprecedented devastation in the Philippines, over 3.2 million women and girls of child-bearing age are still in need of urgent care and…
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01 January 2016
HEALTH CENTERS DAMAGED, VILLAGES NOT RECEIVING ANY HELP
Typhoon Bopha/Pablo Situation Report (12 December 2012): Health centers damaged, villages not receiving any help UNFPA has conducted assessments in the typhoon Bopha (Pablo)…
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01 January 2016
A New Life Begins as Town Reels from Disaster
“It helped a lot that I learned from the health information sessions, especially because it was my first pregnancy. I didn’t have second thoughts delivering in a…
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01 January 2016
Inquirer: Popcom Official Urges Aquino to Act on RH Program
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines -- A Commission on Population (Popcom) official in Eastern Visayas expressed hope that the reproductive health program would be given more…
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01 January 2016
Philippine Information Agency: Problem on Pinoy Sexuality, Not with RH Bill, Says Priest
Tagbilaran City -- "THE problem is not with reproductive health bill but with our sexuality." Thus says Fr. Precy Bacani, a priest member of the religious group of the…
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01 January 2016
MAKING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES COUNT THROUGH BIRTH REGISTRATION
It has been a year but Bebelonia Andata from an indigenous people’s community in Zamboanga del Sur in southern Philippines, will never forget the joy she felt when she…
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01 January 2016
Philippine Star: Online Social Networking Blamed for Rise of AIDS Cases in RP
Health officials blamed yesterday online social networking for the rise in the cases of HIV/AIDS in the country last year. Speaking at the weekly Kapihansa Manila Hotel media…
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01 January 2016
Training Prepares Officer in Campaign VS Trafficking
A female police officer who intercepted a suspected case of trafficking of five young girls from Tacloban City attributes her alertness to her training on human trafficking…
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01 January 2016
New UNFPA Representative to the Philippines
The United Nations Population Fund has named a new representative to the Philippines, Ms. Ugochi Daniels, who took the helm of the country office in November last year. A…
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