Community pantry organizers urged to give condoms, pills
May 3, 2021 2:33 PM PHT
The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has urged community pantry organizers to include contraceptives, such as condoms and pills, in their list of commodities for distribution.
In a statement on Monday, May 3, POPCOM said that dispensing such commodities could help prevent unwanted and unplanned pregnancies during the health crisis.
The agency added that distributing contraceptions in pantries should also be seen as filling a void in the rollout of family planning activities, which are greatly disrupted by the pandemic.
For more than a year now, the Philippines has been placed in different levels of quarantine classifications, which meant that hundreds of thousands of women have not been able to easily access birth control methods.
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May 2, 2021 | 7:43 pm
Health coordinators and workers in Biñan City, Laguna hold seminars and distribute family planning items. POPCOM-REGION IV
THE Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) called on health workers to tap community pantries as a venue for the distribution of family planning items such as condoms and contraceptive pills.
“POPCOM is very much supportive of community pantries as a form of collective action in alleviating the need for sustenance of our less privileged. We believe that they will welcome the addition of condoms and pills among the goods they will source with the help of their local healthcare personnel,” Undersecretary for Population and Development Juan Antonio Perez III said in a statement on Sunday.
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