Mandaue partners with TCI to curb teenage pregnancy

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/13/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – The Mandaue City Government has partnered with The Challenge Initiative International (TCI) to implement programs on adolescent and youth reproductive health, aiming to reduce teenage pregnancies in the city. TCI officials visited Mandaue…

Help desk for teenage mothers in Cebu City eyed

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 02/07/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A councilor in Cebu City has penned a resolution that would cater to the needs of the adolescent mothers in Cebu City — a help desk. Councilor Jose Lorenzo Abellanosa, in his resolution,…

Teen pregnancies: Interagency body to tackle problem head-on

10/24/2023

The problem of teen pregnancies in the country will now be tackled with more teeth with the passing of House Bill (HB) 8910 which establishes the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Inter-Agency Council (APPIAC). The agency is composed of…

2 Cebu City barangays log high number of teenage pregnancy cases — POPCOM

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 07/14/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An officer from the Commission on Population and Development in Central Visayas (POPCOM-7) has identified the two barangays here that logged high number of teenage pregnancy cases. Barangay Inayawan and Barangay Mambaling have…

Preventing teenage pregnancy

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 02/09/2023

Yesterday’s front page included a report on teen births increasingly involving older men, with 59 percent of registered adolescent births fathered by a man older than 20 years old, according to Dr. Leila Joudane, United Nations Population…

Siquijor opens Prov’l Teen Center, a first in Central Visayas

PR 07/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Siquijor teens now have more places to go to for help and advice on matters of the HEART with the establishment of its Provincial Teen Center in addition to the municipal teen centers…

More women in HS, college than men in PH, says report

Matthew Reysio-Cruz - Inquirer.net 12/27/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino women are enrolled in high school and college at significantly higher rates than men, according to an annual report that measures gender equality in 153 countries. The 2020 Global Gender Gap Report of…

Summer youth camp tackles teenage pregnancy, HIV, AIDS

05/28/2016

The Cebu Provincial government’s Social Welfare Development Office, in partnership with the Commission on Population (Popcom 7), recently held a summer youth camp last May 18-21 at the Alta Resort in Cordova town, Mactan Island. The first…

EDITORIAL: Teenage pregnancies

12/03/2014

The Population Commission’s disclosure that a 12-year-old girl became a mother should be cause for concern among Cebuanos whether they be in Metro Cebu or in the countryside. The circumstances behind the girl’s pregnancy were  withheld for…

12-year-old is Cebu’s youngest mother

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/26/2014

A 12-year-old girl is the youngest mother in Cebu, the Commission on Population in Central Visayas (PopCom-7)  revealed. Popcom-7 Director Bruce Ragas said the 12-year-old girl gave birth last year in a hospital in Bogo City, northern…

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