30 June 2022. TO:     The POPCOM Secretariat Deputy Executive Director, Executive Assistant and Technical Action Officer, support staff for the Office of the Executive Director, Senior Central Office managers (Division Chiefs and staff of PMED, PDDMD, KMCD, AD, FMD and CDFOD); POPCOM Regional Population Offices through the Offices of the Regional Director and all continue reading : Commendation from Undersecretary for Population and Development

Through the 2022 Kaunlarang Pantao Awards, also known as the Rafael M. Salas POPDEV award, POPCOM lauded the outstanding efforts and accomplishments of cities and municipalities over the last three years across the country which contributed to the continuous conduct of the PPDP’s three key strategies. namely: responsible parenthood and family planning (RPFP), adolescent health continue reading : POPCOM’s Kaunlarang Pantao Awards fete LGUs that upheld population-development programs thru the pandemic   

Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide—or about 121 million—are unintended, prompting experts and advocates from international agencies, governments and civil societies to band together and sound the alarm on what has been widely deemed an “unseen crisis” on a global scale. This was revealed following the release of the 2022 State of World Population Report continue reading : Experts, advocates express concerns about ‘unseen crisis of unintended pregnancy’