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Note: This is an old article written on August 2013.
Note: This is an old article written on August 2013.
Taguig City--“This is not just something personal but a respond to
the majority population of Province of Masbate who are asking for access to
reproductive health services.” This was the acceptance message of Governor
Rizalina Seachon-Lanete during the Partnership Meeting and Signing of 2013
Annual Work Plan between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the
Province of Masbate on 19 August 2013 in F1 Hotel, Taguig. “Our population
needs this support,” the Governor added.
Meanwhile, Ugochi Daniels, former
Country Representative of UNFPA Philippines, noted the significant contribution
of Masbate during the 6th Country Programme. Daniels recognized
Masbate’s effort towards a 70% increase in the number of pregnant women
completing antenatal visits as a reflection of the multi-sector support
extended to the pregnant women including its Buntis Baby Bank micro-financing
and 18 of its 21 Rural Health Units are already MCP- accredited and with BEmONC
trained personnel as of 2012 and early 2013.
Working on the gains of the 6th
Country Programme, the Province of Masbate is the 10th Province to
have entered into partnership with UNFPA. UNFPA noted that more needs to be
done to address current challenges and disparities especially between the 6th
CP pilot municipalities and the province as a whole in the areas of facility
based delivery, contraceptive prevalence rate, functionality of Women Crises
Protection Units and Local Health Board, and addressing unmet need for modern
family planning method to about 45,797 women of reproductive age (one of the
highest in Bicol).
Under the Medium Package of
Assistance, Masbate will be receiving support based on quality improvement, accreditation and compliance to standards
needs of the Province. The 2013 Annual Work Plan for Masbate will focus on support
18 out of 21 BEmONC certified RHUs in providing long acting and permanent
method of FP to women with unmet need in CCT/ NHTS areas, strengthen capacities
of 74 Barangays (both CCT and non-CCT) in providing family planning services
through integrating Family Planning Action Sessions, masterlisting of women
with unmet need, and referral of clients towards becoming FP acceptors (as well
as mobilizing CHTs/ WHTs). The plan will also ensure the implementation of a
solid STI prevention and control program for high risk young people and male
and female freelance sex workers. It
will also support the completion of ‘province-wide’ CBMS incorporating key data
related to gender and sexual reproductive health needs of the population.
Finally, it will strengthen the gender and development program of the Province
through supporting the functionality of its Women Crises Protection Unit and
review of its draft GAD Code towards enactment.
In
closing Daniels said that, “By 2016, we hope to be able to ensure that
we will make significant strides in ensuring that every
pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person's potential is
fulfilled.”
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