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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Dumaguete: Popcom shifts campaign to natural family planning (8:02 p.m.)
DUMAGUETE CITY -- The Population Commission (Popcom) has shifted its population campaign from scientific way to natural family planning after the United States government stopped the supply of contraceptives, including pills and condoms.
Popcom Central Visayas Regional Director Leo de la Rama said several years back their office supported by several non-government organizations had massively campaigned for the scientific approach to family planning like vasectomy and tubal ligation and encouraging the use of condoms and pills.
“These contraceptives for several years were given to us by the USAid and that the same will also be given to the couples for free, but now this will be purchased by the users unless the National Government and the local government units will shoulder the cost it entails,” de la Rama said.
As a campaign shift, the regional office of the Commission on Population now gives emphasis on the Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods and organizing Responsible Parenting Movement (RPM) up to the barangay level.
Rama said all efforts towards this campaign shift is now geared in Negros Oriental because the province serves as the pilot area based on an earlier executive order issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. (Edmund B. Sestoso/Sunnex)
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