‘Strengthen sex education in PH schools’
Senator Win Gatchalian said there is a pressing need to strengthen sex education to sustain the gains of the Responsible ...
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Lifting the TRO and funding the RH law
The Food and Drug Administration has at last approved the application for recertification of 51 contraceptives put on hold because ...
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Duque vows RH Law will be carried out
Returning Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday assured he will not hamper the implementation of the Reproductive Health Law, ...
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Subverting women’s rights
Angel is a month shy of turning eighteen years old. Due to extreme poverty and their family size, (she is ...
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Contraceptives, the Church and the SC’s TRO
In December 2016, this column discussed the status of Republic Act No. 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health ...
Read moreDuterte signs Executive Order on RH Law
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the executive order that will fully implement the Reproductive Health (RH) Law. National Economic and ...
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Going local on RH Law implementation
I asked the participants in this reproductive health forum if they know of young girls who have gotten pregnant. There ...
Read moreUbial outlines new family planning tack
THE Department of Health is expecting to be able to lay down within a six-month period its family planning program ...
Read moreRH law violations rampant; probe set
THE Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday expressed alarm over violations of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act in ...
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Addressing SRHR
I write this in the very interesting city of Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar as I attend the 8th Asia-Pacific ...
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