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TEENAGE PREGNANCY. Young mothers are shown breastfeeding their babies inside a health facility. In Eastern Visayas, the Commission on Population said 4.9 percent of teenage girls are already mothers. (PNA file photo) TACLOBAN CITY - Teenage pregnancy among 15 to 19 years old in Eastern Visayas has dropped based on the 2022 National Health and Demographic Survey (NDHS), the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) reported Thursday. The figure declined to 4.9 percent last year from 6.9 p...

Before reaching their 15th birthday, a total of 63 teenage women got married in the Philippines in 2021, according to the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Of this number, PSA said 28 married men who were between 20 and 24 years old, while 23 teenage women married…

TEENAGE MOM. The Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) is raising the alarm over the increasing cases of teenage pregnancies among girls aged 10 years to 14 years. In a televised interview Wednesday evening (Feb. 8, 2023), Popcom Deputy Executive Director Lolito Tacardon urged young women to stay focused on their life ambitions to avoid early pregnancy and finish their schooling. (Photo courtesy of Popcom Facebook page) MANILA - The Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) h...

The House Committee on Youth and Sports on Thursday, Feb. 2, approved a substitute bill, subject to amendment and style, that would institutionalize a comprehensive policy against the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and make family planning methods accessible to sexually active minors. Filipino

Photo: TEENAGE MOM. A young mother and her baby are being attended to by a doctor in this undated photo. A consolidated bill is being pushed in the House of Representatives that seeks to institutionalize a policy that would prevent teenage pregnancies. (Photo lifted from the Commission on Population and Development Facebook page) MANILA - The House Committee on Youth and Sports Development on Thursday approved the consolidation of at least seven bills that seek to institutionalize a policy that ...

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NORTHERN Mindanao and Davao Region account for the largest percentage of teen girls aged 15 to 19 who were ever pregnant, based on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Data showed that 10.9 percent of teens in Northern Mindanao and 8.2 percent of teens in Davao Region were ever pregnant. There…

THE newly sworn-in Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) Executive Director intends to focus on the commission’s development aims. National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan has recently sworn into office former National Statistician Lisa Grace S. Bersales as undersecretary for population and development (Popdev). “The three…

WHICH is more challenging? To have a fertility rate declining below replacement rate and be confronted with providing for an aging population, or see a fertility boom that makes poverty reduction harder? To the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda), the recent decline in the country’s fertility rate is welcome…

Despite more than half of local government units allotting funds for family planning services to their constituents, nearly half seem unprepared to provide such services, according to the Commission on Population and Development.