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12:36, 20 August 2008
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Philippines
Date established 1990
Contact details Population Services Pilipinas Inc
2015 Gil Puyat Avenue
Pasay City 1300
Metro Manilla
Philippines

Telephone: + 63 283 128 76
Email: bod@pspi.org
Services offered Family planning; HIV/STIs; health screening; male circumcision; maternal health; young people; advocacy
Number of clinics 11
Outreach / mobile services Yes
Major partners The Philippines Government
Major donors UK Department for International Development (DFID); European Commission; British Embassy in Manila; the David & Lucile Packard Foundation; Direct Relief International

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Highlights

  •  the only organisation in the Philippines that provides accessible high quality sexual and reproductive health services throughout the country
  • provided 130,246 services in 2006, generating over 677,000 Couple Years of Protection
  • effectively advocated with 70 local government units over the recognition and inclusion of adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues, education, and services in the legislative agenda

Future plans

  • establish the BlueStar social franchise network
  • intensify promotion of long term and permanent family planning methods
  • improve access to all services through achieving a presence in at least 75% of local government units

 

Key statistics for Philippines

Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007) 85.9
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 1.6
Projected population (millions) (2050) 127.1
Life expectancy (M / F) 69.3 / 73.7
Total fertility rate (2007) 2.87
% contraceptive prevalence: any method 49
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 33
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 33
% births with skills attendants 60
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 200
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 24
Under 5 mortality (M / F) 33 / 22
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F <0.1/ <0.1
Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 1.4
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