POPCOM: Teenage pregnancies nat’l social emergency
The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) is concerned about the increase of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines, saying it ...
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Bayer, POPCOM push for fact promotion on Family Planning on World Contraception Day
Bayer Philippines Inc. and POPCOM have pushed on World Contraception Day for a more aggressive facts promotion on Family planning ...
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PH population: More seniors as few babies born
Filipinos are having fewer babies while the number of senior citizens has doubled in the last 20 years to account ...
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Population growth
"We need to confront the biggest elephant in the room insofar as our hopes of creating a better quality of ...
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Popcom eyes 1% population growth a year
The Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) on Wednesday said it aimed to keep the country’s yearly population growth at around ...
Read morePopCom to continue focusing on family planning, poverty issues
The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) will continue pursuing key policies on family planning and addressing poverty thresholds under ...
Read morePOPCOM chief optimistic BBM will adopt BP2 program
The continuity of the government’s Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa (BP2) program will promote “inclusive economic development”. “The incoming Marcos administration ...
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16 is the new age of sexual consent
"The need to protect children from all forms of abuse is consistent with the State’s duty to uphold human rights." ...
Read morePH logs highest death rate in decades — report
The first 11 months of 2021 saw more registered deaths across the Philippines, which stood at 768,504—higher by 154,562 than ...
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Teenage pregnancies in PH drop 13% in 2020, POPCOM reports
The number of births among adolescent mothers in the country in 2020 went down by 23,855—a 13-percent drop which set ...
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