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New Popcom exec director aspires for Filipinos’ stable, comfortable lives

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.