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we’re about to show you a 3 minute video to prove how family planning and contraception is VERY IMPORTANT

Contraceptives or Birth control are methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Some methods, like condoms, also prevent
transmission of STDs. There is a wide range of contraceptives available thanks to comprehensive research and study. The most effective
among these is sterilization (vasectomy in men, tubal ligation in women) and Intra Uterine devices (IUDs) with a success rate of
99.8%. Hormonal contraceptives such as pills, patches, injections, barrier mechanisms like condoms and diaphragms are widely used all
over the world.
However, studies and a general consensus have shown that the most commonly used method of contraception is the male con dom and
the ‘morning-after’ pill. Each accounts to 25% of most commonly used contraception methods.
But what you should know is that not all contraceptives provide protection against Sexually Transmissible Infections or STIs. Barrier
contraceptives such as male and female condoms are the best bet against STIs. Over 50% of STI complaints are from those aged 20 to 29
years. Although abstinence is the only method that offers 100% protection against STIs and pregnancy, it can’t be considered as a viable
option.r
Emergency contraception is, in a matter of speaking, a curative method. It is used to prevent an unp rlanned pregnancy after you have had
sex without the use of contraceptives. The iPill or the ‘morning after ’ pill are examples of emergency contraception .

Family Planning and Contraception is not a joke is one of the worst

Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is achieved
through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility (this fact sheet focuses on contraception).

.According to the Commission of Population (POPCOM), an average of 530 women age 10 to 19 give birth everyday as of August 2019. One in every
6 teenage mothers get pregnant again.

Three babies are born every minute in the Philippines, the Commission on Population (POPCOM) said Wednesday.

If this rate continues, the population will increase by 2 million in just a year, the agency added.

From 107 million in 2018, the population is likely to reach 109 million by the end of the year, according to POPCOM NCR Director Dr. Lydio Espanol
Jr.

The desired number of babies in urban areas is two per family. This is enough to replace a mother and a father. But because of failure in family
planning, some families conceive more than they desire.

The same can be said in families living in urban areas where three is the usual desired number. But some families have up to five children, maybe
even more.

Espanol said the higher the number of children, the higher the possibility for a family to become prone to poverty.

Countries in the world.

Its isolated, its dangerous, its strict, but above all its depressing

ALL OF US NEEDS THIS.

Due to the overpopulation here mostly in the Philippines, for each and every family needs to have family planning

The Philippines has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in all of Asia.
Out of every ten girls, ONE is pregnant
Sarah is one of them: “ Hi Im Sarah “
By the time she was 18, Sarah got her boyfriend got her pregnant TWICE
And by the time I was 18, I was busy peaches and getting ready for college,

Sarah… didn’t go to college and couldn’t pursue her dreams of becoming a photojournalist, because of this
Now she needs 3 jobs to support her kids and she’s only 22!
While her boyfriend… He moved on with his life as if he’s not equally responsible

Teen pregnancy is a real problem for the parent and the kid
Sarah is just one example
But the are more million more Sarahs with million more stories that needs to be heard

Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is achieved
through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility (this fact sheet focuses on contraception).

Benefits of family planning / contraception

Promotion of family planning – and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods for women and couples – is essential to
securing the well-being and autonomy of women, while supporting the health and development of communities.
Preventing pregnancy-related health risks in women

A woman’s ability to choose if and when to become pregnant has a direct impact on her health and well-being. Family planning allows

spacing of pregnancies and can delay pregnancies in young women at increased risk of health problems and death from early

childbearing. It prevents unintended pregnancies, including those of older women who face increased risks related to pregnancy.

Family planning enables women who wish to limit the size of their families to do so. Evidence suggests that women who have more
than 4 children are at increased risk of maternal mortality.

By reducing rates of unintended pregnancies, family planning also reduces the need for unsafe abortion.

Reducing infant mortality

Family planning can prevent closely spaced and ill-timed pregnancies and births, which contribute to some of the world’s highest infant

mortality rates. Infants of mothers who die as a result of giving birth also have a greater risk of death and poor health.

Helping to prevent HIV/AIDS

Family planning reduces the risk of unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV, resulting in fewer infected babies and

orphans. In addition, male and female condoms provide dual protection against unintended pregnancies and against STIs including
HIV.

Empowering people and enhancing education

Family planning enables people to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health. Family planning represents an

opportunity for women to pursue additional education and participate in public life, including paid employment in non-family

organizations. Additionally, having smaller families allows parents to invest more in each child. Children with fewer siblings tend to stay
in school longer than those with many siblings.

Reducing adolescent pregnancies

Pregnant adolescents are more likely to have preterm or low birth-weight babies. Babies born to adolescents have higher rates of

neonatal mortality. Many adolescent girls who become pregnant have to leave school. This has long-term implications for them as
individuals, their families and communities.

Slowing population growth

Family planning is key to slowing unsustainable population growth and the resulting negative impacts on the economy, environment,

and national and regional development efforts.

Who provides family planning / contraceptives?

It is important that family planning is widely available and easily accessible through midwives and other trained health workers to

anyone who is sexually active, including adolescents. Midwives are trained to provide (where authorised) locally available and culturally

acceptable contraceptive methods. Other trained health workers, for example community health workers, also provide counselling and

some family planning methods, for example pills and condoms. For methods such as sterilization, women and men need to be referred
to a clinician.

Contraceptive use
Contraceptive use has increased in many parts of the world, especially in Asia and Latin America, but continues to be low in sub-

Saharan Africa. Globally, use of modern contraception has risen slightly, from 54% in 1990 to 57.4% in 2015. Regionally, the proportion

of women aged 15–49 reporting use of a modern contraceptive method has risen minimally or plateaued between 2008 and 2015. In

Africa it went from 23.6% to 28.5%, in Asia it has risen slightly from 60.9% to 61.8%, and in Latin America and the Caribbean it has
remained stable at 66.7%.

Use of contraception by men makes up a relatively small subset of the above prevalence rates. The modern contraceptive methods for
men are limited to male condoms and sterilization (vasectomy).

Global unmet need for contraception

214 million women of reproductive age in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a modern contraceptive
method. Reasons for this include:

 limited choice of methods;

 limited access to contraception, particularly among young people, poorer segments of populations, or unmarried people;
 fear or experience of side-effects;
 cultural or religious opposition;
 poor quality of available services;
 users and providers bias
 gender-based barriers.

The unmet need for contraception remains too high. This inequity is fuelled by both a growing population, and a shortage of family

planning services. In Africa, 24.2% of women of reproductive age have an unmet need for modern contraception. In Asia, and Latin
America and the Caribbean – regions with relatively high contraceptive prevalence – the levels of unmet need are 10.2 % and 10.7%,
respectively (Trends in Contraception Worldwide 2015, UNDESA).

Contraceptive methods

Modern methods
Effectiveness to prevent
Method Description How it works Comments
pregnancy

>99% with correct and

Prevents the consistent use
Combined oral
Contains two hormones release of eggs Reduces risk of endometrial
contraceptives
(estrogen and progestogen) from the ovaries and ovarian cancer
(COCs) or “the pill”
(ovulation)
92% as commonly used

99% with correct and

consistent use
Thickens cervical
Progestogen-only mucous to block Can be used while
Contains only progestogen
pills (POPs) or "the sperm and egg breastfeeding; must be taken at
hormone, not estrogen
minipill" from meeting and the same time each day
90–97% as commonly used
prevents ovulation

Health-care provider must

Small, flexible rods or Thickens cervical
insert and remove; can be used
capsules placed under the mucous to block
for 3–5 years depending on
Implants skin of the upper arm; sperm and egg >99%
implant; irregular vaginal
contains progestogen from meeting and
bleeding common but not
hormone only prevents ovulation
harmful

Progestogen only Thickens cervical >99% with correct and Delayed return to fertility (about
Injected into the muscle or
injectables mucous to block consistent use 1–4 months on the average)
under the skin every 2 or 3
sperm and egg after use; irregular vaginal
 Effectiveness to prevent
Method Description How it works Comments
pregnancy

months, depending on from meeting and bleeding common, but not

97% as commonly used
product prevents ovulation harmful

>99% with correct and

Monthly injectables
Prevents the consistent use
or combined Injected monthly into the
release of eggs Irregular vaginal bleeding
injectable muscle, contains estrogen
from the ovaries common, but not harmful
contraceptives and progestogen
(ovulation)
(CIC)
97% as commonly used

The patch and the CVR are

new and research on
Combined Continuously releases 2 The Patch and the CVR provide
Prevents the effectiveness is limited.
contraceptive patch hormones – a progestin and a comparable safety and
release of eggs Effectiveness studies report
and combined an estrogen- directly pharmacokinetic profile to
from the ovaries that it may be more effective
contraceptive through the skin (patch) or COCs with similar hormone
(ovulation) than the COCs, both as
vaginal ring (CVR) from the ring. formulations.
commonly and consistent or
correct use.

Copper
Longer and heavier periods
Small flexible plastic device component
Intrauterine device during first months of use are
containing copper sleeves damages sperm
(IUD): copper >99% common but not harmful; can
or wire that is inserted into and prevents it
containing also be used as emergency
the uterus from meeting the
contraception
egg

Decreases amount of blood lost

A T-shaped plastic device
Thickens cervical with menstruation over time;
inserted into the uterus that
Intrauterine device mucous to block Reduces menstrual cramps and
steadily releases small >99%
(IUD) levonorgestrel sperm and egg symptoms of endometriosis;
amounts of levonorgestrel
from meeting amenorrhea (no menstrual
each day
bleeding) in a group of users

Forms a barrier to 98% with correct and

Also protects against sexually
Sheaths or coverings that fit prevent sperm consistent use
Male condoms transmitted infections, including
over a man's erect penis and egg from
HIV
meeting
85% as commonly used

90% with correct and

Sheaths, or linings, that fit Forms a barrier to consistent use
Also protects against sexually
loosely inside a woman's prevent sperm
Female condoms transmitted infections, including
vagina, made of thin, and egg from
HIV
transparent, soft plastic film meeting
79% as commonly used

3 months delay in taking effect

>99% after 3 months semen
Permanent contraception to while stored sperm is still
Keeps sperm out evaluation
Male sterilization block or cut the vas present; does not affect male
of ejaculated
(vasectomy) deferens tubes that carry sexual performance; voluntary
semen
sperm from the testicles 97–98% with no semen and informed choice is
evaluation essential

Permanent contraception to Eggs are blocked

Female sterilization Voluntary and informed choice
block or cut the fallopian from meeting >99%
(tubal ligation) is essential
tubes sperm
 Effectiveness to prevent
Method Description How it works Comments
pregnancy

99% with correct and

Temporary contraception for
consistent use
new mothers whose
Prevents the A temporary family planning
Lactational monthly bleeding has not
release of eggs method based on the natural
amenorrhea method returned; requires exclusive
from the ovaries effect of breastfeeding on
(LAM) or full breastfeeding day and
(ovulation) fertility
night of an infant less than 6 98% as commonly used
months old

Emergency
contraception pills If all 100 women used
Pills taken to prevent
(ulipristal acetate 30 progestin-only emergency Does not disrupt an already
pregnancy up to 5 days Delays ovulation
mg or contraception, one would existing pregnancy
after unprotected sex
levonorgestrel 1.5 likely become pregnant.
mg)

Can be used to identify fertile

days by both women who want
to become pregnant and
95% with consistent and
Prevents women who want to avoid
Women track their fertile correct use.
pregnancy by pregnancy. Correct, consistent
periods (usually days 8 to
Standard Days avoiding use requires partner
19 of each 26 to 32 day
Method or SDM unprotected cooperation.
cycle) using cycle beads or
vaginal sex during
other aids
most fertile days. 88% with common use
(Arevalo et al 2002)

99% effective with correct and

consistent use.
Woman takes her body Prevents If the BBT has risen and has
temperature at the same pregnancy by stayed higher for 3 full days,
Basal Body 75% with typical use of FABM
time each morning before avoiding ovulation has occurred and the
Temperature (BBT) (Trussell, 2009)
getting out of bed observing unprotected fertile period has passed. Sex
Method
for an increase of 0.2 to 0.5 vaginal sex during can resume on the 4th day until
degrees C. fertile days her next monthly bleeding.

Prevents 96% with correct and Difficult to use if a woman has a

Women track their fertile
pregnancy by consistent use. vaginal infection or another
periods by observing
avoiding condition that changes cervical
TwoDay Method presence of cervical mucus
unprotected mucus. Unprotected coitus may
(if any type color or 86% with typical or common
vaginal sex during be resumed after 2 consecutive
consistency) use. (Arevalo, 2004)
most fertile days, dry days (or without secretions)

98% with correct and

Women track their fertile consistent use.
Prevents May have to be used with
periods by observing
pregnancy by caution after an abortion,
changes in the cervical Reported 98% with typical use
Sympto-thermal avoiding around menarche or
mucus (clear texture) , body (Manhart et al, 2013)
Method unprotected menopause, and in conditions
temperature (slight
vaginal sex during which may increase body
increase) and consistency
most fertile temperature.
of the cervix (softening).
Traditional methods

Traditional
Methods

91% with
Women monitor their pattern of The couple prevents May need to delay or use with
correct and
Calendar menstrual cycle over 6 months, pregnancy by avoiding caution when using drugs (such as
consistent
method or subtracts 18 from shortest cycle unprotected vaginal sex anxiolytics, antidepressants,
use.
rhythm length (estimated 1st fertile day) during the 1st and last NSAIDS, or certain antibiotics)
method and subtracts 11 from longest cycle estimated fertile days, by which may affect timing of
75% with
length (estimated last fertile day) abstaining or using a condom. ovulation.
common use

96% with
correct and
consistent
use
One of the least effective methods,
Man withdraws his penis from his
Withdrawal Tries to keep sperm out of the because proper timing of withdrawal
partner's vagina, and ejaculates 73% as
(coitus woman's body, preventing is often difficult to determine,
outside the vagina, keeping semen commonly
interruptus) fertilization leading to the risk of ejaculating
away from her external genitalia used
while inside the vagina.
(Trussell,
2009)

WHO response

WHO is working to promote family planning by producing evidence-based guidelines on safety and service delivery of contraceptive

methods, developing quality standards and providing pre-qualification of contraceptive commodities, and helping countries introduce,
adapt and implement these tools to meet their needs.

President Rodrigo Duterte and his Cabinet have approved the implementation plan for the national program on family planning,

Malacañang said Tuesday.

Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the program was approved after it was presented by Socioeconomic Planning

Secretary Ernesto Pernia and Commission on Population and Development Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez during the Cabinet

meeting on Monday. Panelo

could not say when the plan will be implemented.

He added that the approval of the plan is expected to reduce poverty incidence in the country from the current 20 percent to 14 percent

in 2022 when Duterte steps down from office.

Panelo said the “key strategy” was the use of effective modern contraceptives, which 11.3 million women would be given access to over

the next four years.

The aim is to increase the rate of contraceptive use from 40 percent to 65 percent in order to prevent four million unintended

pregnancies and two million cases of abortion over the period.

Aside from poverty reduction, the plan aims to promote better health and socioeconomic development among Filipinos, according to

Panelo.

“We understand that a great majority of Filipinos favor family planning but not all of them have access to contraceptives due to various

reasons,” Panelo said.

“Accordingly, the government is here to respond and help those who wish to undergo family planning.”

The approval of the plan came nearly three months after Duterte signed Executive Order 71 on December 13 last year, which puts back

the CPD under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). CPD is

mandated to formulate and adopt coherent, integrated, and comprehensive long-term plans, programs, and recommendations on
population and family planning as it relates to economic and social development. The Philippine

Development Plan 2017-2022, the country’s development blueprint crafted by NEDA, has identified the integration of population and

development as one of the key strategies to accelerate the country's economic growth and improve the quality of Filipinos’ lives.

“NEDA will make sure that the country’s population is well-managed and programs related to it are in sync with our overall development

plans,” said Pernia. Department

of Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones and Undersecretary Luis Pangulayan cited the actions of the department to streamline

the land use conversion process. “After the issuance of an

executive order, DAR will be able to process land conversion within 30 days compared to the previous 190 days. DAR was instructed to

submit a complete staff work to the Office of the Executive Secretary,” Panelo said. The President also

approved the proposed construction of 31 evacuation centers in six provinces. — BM, GMA News