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The Catholic-majority country now has a birthrate of just 1.9 children per adult woman, the third-lowest in Southeast Asia.

Benjamin de Leon, a Filipino whose advocacy helped pave the way for crucial reforms and policies on reproductive health in the Philippines, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in Family Planning and Reproductive Health at the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning this week.

ANN/THE INQUIRER – Baby girl Vinice – symbolically the eight billionth person in the world – was born on Monday at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Medical Center in Manila, the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) said in a statement on Tuesday. The mother, 27-year-old Margarette Mabansag, had a normal delivery at 1.29am. Popcom […]

More than 879,000 Filipinos died in 2021, the year which the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) described as the deadliest in Philippine history. Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III, PopCom executive director, said a total of 879,429 deaths were reported by the Philippine Statisti

PAGBABAGO Both my sister (an octogenarian) and I, older by two years, perhaps typify the cohort of middle-class professionals in our society today. She lives in a townhouse beside her daughter’s home in a Metro Manila subdivision, while I live in a condominium some 15 kilometers away from her. Th