The Philippines still ranks 56th out of 150 countries in the number of unintended pregnancies at 71 per 1,000 women annually, according to the 2022 State of World Population report.
MANILA, Philippines – Despite fears that unintended pregnancies would rise amid pandemic lockdowns, the Philippines was able to avert 200,000 possible unintended pregnancies in 2020. It did so by continuing to provide family planning services, the Commission on Population and Development reported on Wednesday, June 8.2020 report
“We averted that just by mobilizing local government units and mobilizing community workers, because they were the key during the COVID era. They would go house-to-house and deliver pills and condoms to family planning users. And we tried to keep our clinics open at all levels. We avoided a downturn in family planning services,” he said.
Even with the thousands of unintended pregnancies averted, authorities and the UNFPA continued to sound the alarm over the work that still needed to be done.
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