Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate basic education committee, issued the statement following a report of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) that pregnancies among minors aged 10-14 was up by seven percent in 2019 compared to the previous year.
Gatchalian also warned that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further increase the number of adolescent pregnancies, citing experiences from past calamities and disasters.
When super typhoon ‘’Yolanda’’ struck, 23.5 percent of teenage girls in Eastern Visayas got pregnant, according to a study by the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP).
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Gatchalian seeks more aggressive gov t response to teenage pregnancy surge
Following the Commission on Population and Development s (POPCOM) report that pregnancies among minors aged 10-14 was up by 7 percent in 2019 compared to the previous year, Senator Win Gatchalian is calling for a more aggressive government response to prevent young girls from being pregnant and falling in the trap of intergenerational poverty.
Gatchalian also warned that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to further increase the number of adolescent pregnancies, citing experiences from past calamities and disasters. When Typhoon Yolanda struck, 23.5 percent of teenage girls in Eastern Visayas got pregnant, according to a study by the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP).
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This is one of the findings of the research study conducted by researchers from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-National Research Council of the Philippines (NCRP), led by Dr. Goria Nelson.
“This is what I want to emphasize, pandemic is not the case of teenage pregnancy but several mediating factors such as school closures. When the schools close, they are most exposed to a smaller community, more men and boys,” she said during the 7th KTOP-COVID (Kapakanan ng Tao sa Oras ng Pandemya – COVID) webinar series: “The Stories of Filipino Pregnant Teenagers and Teenage Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis.”
Published February 1, 2021, 8:29 AM
Siargao Island is not just a home to the famous “Cloud 9” wave, but also a home to hundreds of species of plants and fauna.
The teardrop-shaped island’s biodiversity was uncovered in a study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) members of Division V (Biological Sciences).
Led by Dr. Cecilia Banag-Moran, the NRCP team logged around 110 species of plants and 403 species of animals from the aquatic and terrestrial habitats in the municipality of Del Carmen alone.
The study showed that “remarkable plant and beach forest species and possible new species of frog, rat, tarsier, insects, marine fish and decapod crustaceans” can be found in Del Carmen, Siargao in Surigao del Norte.