NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM

Vision

For Filipino women and men achieve their desired family size and fulfill the reproductive health and rights for all through universal
access to quality family planning information and services.

Mission

In line with the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus strategy and Universal Health Care framework, the National Family
Planning Program is committed to provide responsive policy direction and ensure access of Filipinos to medically safe, legal, non-
abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods.

Objectives

1. To increase modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) among all women from 24.9% in 2017 to 30% by 2022

2. To reduce the unmet need for modern family planning from 10.8% in 2017 to 8% by 2022

Program Accomplishments/Status

The passage of the RPRH Law in 2012 is considered as a landmark legislation in the country’s law-making history, and has laid down
the legislative foundation in achieving reproductive health and rights of all Filipinos towards better health outcomes and
socioeconomic growth.
The 0-10 Point Socioeconomic Agenda of the current administration, President Rodrigo Duterte, acknowledged the full
implementation of the RPRH Law as an essential policy measure in achieving the targets set by the Philippines in the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) 2030 and Ambisyon Natin  (Our Ambition) 2040.

As a result, President Duterte issued an Executive Order (EO) No. 12, entitled Attaining and sustaining “Zero Unmet Need for Modern
Family Planning” through the strict implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, providing funds
therefor, and for other purposes in January of 2017. The Order intensifies and accelerates the implementation of critical actions
necessary to address the unmet need of Filipinos for modern family planning (mFP). The Order also directs all executive agencies to
allocate resources and solicits support in this initiative. The Department of Health (DOH), as the lead agency, issued an operational
guideline for the said Order. The guideline provides direction and strategies to accelerate and sustain reduction in unmet need for
mFP, and eventually attain the Filipinos’ desired family size especially among the poor and marginalized.

In the first six months of the EO No. 12 implementation, a total of 610,998 women were reached and identified to have unmet need
for mFP, of which 356,460 accepted the FP service. The succeeding report of the EO No. 12 was incorporated in the annual
Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Accomplishment Report that was submitted in April 2018.

In 2017, the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 was formally introduced. The PDP is the country’s medium-term plan
geared towards achieving SDG and Ambisyon Natin. The Family Planning was identified as a pivotal intervention in realizing the
country’s demographic dividend.

One of the major highlights in 2017 is the lifting of the Supreme Court’s Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to the DOH and Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), particularly the DOH from utilizing its progestin subdermal implant supplies
- Implanon  and Implanon NXT, and the FDA from issuing certificates of product registration of contraceptives. The TRO was lifted on
Nov. 10, 2017 when the DOH promulgated the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of the RPRH Law, and the FDA re-
certified all 51 contraceptive products to be non-abortifacient, including the subdermal implants - Implanon and Implanon NXT.

WHAT IS FAMILY PLANNING?

Family Planning (FP) is having the desired number of children and when you want to have them by using safe and effective modern
methods. Proper birth spacing is having children 3 to 5 years apart, which is best for the health of the mother, her child, and the
family.

HIV-AIDS: Get tested to know status

The Philippines has been reported to be one of the fastest growing worldwide in terms of rate of increase in infections of HIV/AIDS
with a reported 56,275 cumulative cases since 1984 by the Department of Health AIDS Registry. The same data shows, however, that
the Philippines is also a low-HIV-prevalence country, with less than 0.1 percent of the adult population estimated to be HIV-positive.

According to Quezon City Public Health Department Medical Officer Dr. Angel Mendoza, the increase in the Philippines’ yearly status
on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases rise to about 170 percent. As of
November 2018, approximately one to two Filipinos are diagnosed as positive in an hour.   The medical practitioner conducted an
HIV/AIDS orientation to employees of the Philippine Information Agency courtesy of its Human Resource and Development Division.