calendar_today 17 September 2014

Completing a Community-Initiated Birthing Facility

Sitio Gawasan is three to four hours on foot to the Barangay Bentangan Health Center. Roads are rough and access is only via walking or a bumpy ride on a motorcycle through wide,…

calendar_today 22 August 2014

Statement

Keynote Message on the Launching of the Rafael M. Salas Lecture Series on Population and Development

Full text of the Keynote Message delivered by UNFPA Country Representative Klaus Beck at the launch of Rafael M. Salas Lecture Series on Population and Development at University…

calendar_today 31 July 2014

Birthing Centre Reopens After Yolanda

Eight months after Typhoon Yolanda, the Government of Japan and the United Nations Population Fund completed the repair and handed over to the local government of Palo, Leyte one…

calendar_today 26 July 2014

Press Release

100m PH Population an Opportunity to Invest in the Future

The Philippines is the 12th most populous country in the world and, on Sunday (July 27), it welcomes its 100-millionth citizen, presenting both challenges of and…

calendar_today 15 July 2014

INDIGENOUS WOMEN WELCOME FAMILY PLANNING

“This is for my children because I want them to have a better future,” said Rowena, a 25-year-old mother of three, who comes from a poor indigenous community in…