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  • Title: Family planning program: big strides in 10 years.
    Author: Snead B.
    Journal: War Hung; 1977 Dec; 11(11):16-9. PubMed ID: 12177895.
    Abstract:
    Jaime Sacwpayo is the District Population Officer for POPCOM (Commission on Population) for 5 municipalities in the Philippines, and his home functions as the barangay supply point for contraceptives. In this community 33 of 93 families are eligible for family planning, and Jaime Sacwpayo and his wife have enlisted 21 of these into practicing family planning. They are either using contraceptives or have been sterilized. Over the past 10 years in the Philippines, tremendous progress has been made in family planning. Since 1971 POPCOM has been responsible for directing a broad family planning organization and increasing the acceptability of family planning. POPCOM now has over 2900 operating clinics staffed by trained personnel along with 11 regional offices and over 35 hospitals that are equipped to provide training for sterilization. Nearly 1.5 million Filipinos now actively practice family planning methods, and the government has increasingly supported population planning. POPCOM's target is to reduce the current 2.6% growth rate by .1% each year and to have 35% of married couples of reproductive age practicing family planning by 1980. At 1st emphasis was on establishing family planning clinics throughout the country, but these proved effective for only those people living in the vicinity. In 1976, in an effort to reach the rural areas and to encourage all local officials to support family planning, POPCOM and Aid to International Development developed a new program, the National Family Planning Outreach Project. The goal of this project is to make national family planning services convenient and dependably available without cost in every barangay. Also, in 1975, POPCOM and AID launched a modest nationwide voluntary sterilization program which has been expanded and endorsed as a major service.
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