Hidalgo: Insights on the annual World Population Day
THE Commission on Population in Davao Region commemorated the Annual World Population Day last July 11. This aimed to raise the people's awareness on global population issues. This yearly event got the public interest when the global population went up to five billion on July 11, 1987. It became to be known as "Five Billion Day" when the world reached that huge number. The Commission on Population in Davao Region set these activities as announced by the regional director Bai Agnes Duruin Sampulna to increase the people's awareness on the urgency and importance of various population issues to resolve the problems. They are family planning, reproductive health, gender equality, poverty, maternal and child health, and human rights.
Davao Region has 4.8 million population based on the 2015 Population Census by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). By strengthening partnerships with regional agencies and LGUs we are ensuring the demand generation and service delivery of modern Family Planning to be available to couples and individuals of reproductive age will be served. All means of FP including contraception, natural FP is a fundamental human right. The WPD is observed by the United Nations Population Fund, the lead agency the goal is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every person's potential is fulfilled. Parents have the right to determine freely and responsibility on the number and spacing of their children.
The Popcom-Davao has referred and served 29,578 clients who have unmet needs for family planning from January 2017 to June 2018. The agency have also its program partners with the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program which were given to 298, 891 of its members. The City Health Office, Population Division officer will also conduct seminars on Family Planning and human rights.
The Davao City Population Office is installing Condom Dispensing Machines at the City Council building as part of the office's responsible sexuality program. These condom dispensing machines will be available for male comfort rooms. This is one of the means to address the issue on teenage pregnancy.
Responsible parenthood drive is intensified in the Davao Region. All the possibilities to let the information needed is given down to the grassroots levels will insure the success of the insights of this column.
There are natural family planning programs such as the Billing's hormonal flow way which will never fail if followed strictly. It is done by husband and wife who lovingly will record the hormonal flow on a calendar. To know when sexual contact will result positively that a baby will be conceived will be known Normal cycle is 28 days marked from last day of menstruation to the next. The wife will notice the flow of a thick white substance on her vagina. Record this in the calendar. Then the crucial flow comes in an almost watery flow. Mark these 3 days in your calendar. Day I pregnancy is possible; day 2 is peak day, pregnancy is sure; day 3 pregnancy is still possible. This calendar has to be followed when the married couple would like to have a baby. All the other days of the 28 days are safe to have sexual intercourse and not conceive a baby.
You see, natural family planning is simple.
Artificial family planning will use all contraceptives as pills, condoms, IUD (intrauterine device) placed inside the vagina till the womb, all of which are dangerous to one's health and peace of mind. I hope all my readers, married couples, will follow the Billing's Natural method of family planning.
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