Background: Whether the association between teenage pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes could be explained by deleterious social environment, inadequate prenatal care, or biological immaturity ...
1979, is essential to address the rising cases of teenage pregnancy nationwide. “Especially now that teenage pregnancy is considered a national emergency, it is only right that we strengthen the ...
New figures show that teenage pregnancy rates rose by 40 per cent in some parts of London last year. The situation is getting worse in two-thirds of the capital's boroughs, despite dozens of ...
According to the DOH chief, there is no need for a new law to tackle the issue of teenage pregnancy as Republic Act No. 10354, or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law of 2012 (RH Law ...
CONSERVATIVE and religious leaders and their allies in Congress are mobilizing against the proposed Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act in the Senate, more than a year after a similar bill was ...
MANILA, Philippines — While expressing concern over the increasing trend of teenage pregnancy in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) is not keen on supporting the controversial Senate ...
A YOUNG mum recalled the judgement she received after falling pregnant twice while she was still in school. She revealed that people advised her to have an abortion when she was first expecting at ...
TEENAGE pregnancy cases in Central Luzon decreased by 9.73 percent from 17,107 cases in 2022 to 15,442 cases in 2023, based on the latest Civil Registry and Vital Statistics data from the Philippine ...
“We didn't have [CSE] during my time, but we were not guilty of any teenage pregnancy. Why now? Why do we have to follow the western ideology? Why should we?” Abante asked. “Bakit kinakailangan nating ...