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Vision
For Filipino women to have full access to health services towards making their
pregnancy and delivery safer
Mission
Guided by the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus thrust and the Universal
Health Care Frame, the National Safe Motherhood Program is committed to provide
rational and responsive policy direction to its local government partners in the delivery of
quality maternal and newborn health services with integrity and accountability using
proven and innovative approaches
Objectives
The Program contributes to the national goal of improving women’s health and well-
being by:
Program Components
This component supports LGUs in establishing and mobilizing the service delivery
network of public and private providers to enable them to deliver the integrated maternal-
newborn service package. In each province and city, the following shall continue to be
undertaken:
Partner Institutions
Republic Act No. 10354: Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law (RPRH
Act of 2012)
Program Accomplishments/Status
The Department of Health through the National Safe Motherhood Program shall continue
to update its strategies to address critical reproductive health concerns including control
of sexually transmitted infections and mother to child transmission of HIV while
confronting both demand and supply side obstacles to access for disadvantaged women
including indigenous women of reproductive age. Among the changes, the following
have been systematically mainstreamed into the safe motherhood service delivery
network (BEmONC-CEmONC network):
The above changes in service delivery also involved a shift from centrally controlled
national programs operating separately and governed independently at various levels of
the health system to an LGU governed system that delivers an integrated women’s
health and safe motherhood service package. This service delivery strategy is focused
on maximizing synergies among key services that influence maternal and newborn
health and on ensuring a continuum of care across levels of the referral system. At the
ground level, this implies that a woman, whatever her age and specially if she is
disadvantaged, who seeks care from a public health provider for reproductive health
concerns, could expect to be given a comprehensive array of services that addresses
her most critical reproductive health needs.
DOH provides stewardship and guidance through (1) evidence-based guidelines and
protocols on maternal - newborn services; (2) a system for recognizing providers of
emergency obstetrics and newborn care (BEmONC) training program; and (3)
monitoring, evaluation and research on the new maternal-newborn strategies.
Program Accomplishments/Status
The Program shall continue to monitor the implementation of its policies and evaluate
effectiveness in improving maternal outcomes and consequently translate these to
maternal and newborn mortality reductions. LGUs shall be continuously encouraged to
address local health system’s gaps identified during maternal death reviews.
Relevant policies that responds to maternal needs have been passed that include
among others for 2018, the policy of prevention of illegal and unsafe abortions and
management of post – abortion complication. Implementation of this policy is expected
to reduce maternal death by at least 21%. The Program shall continue to pass policies
based on death review results.
To date, 95% of Birthing Centers have teams trained on basic emergency obstetric and
newborn care.
Calendar of Activities
Statistics
Targets Accomplishments
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Indicators
4 Antenatal
75% 80% 85% 90-% 95% 73% 78% 74% 79% 87%
Care Visits
% Facility
75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 78% 80% 81% 88% 78%
Delivery
% Skilled
Health
Professional 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 87% 86% 85% 90% 84%
Assisted
Delivery
2 Postnatal 75% 80% 85% 90 95 78% 76% 81% 81% 86%
check-ups
Please Note: Accomplishments from 2013-2016 are based on Program Reports; while 2017
accomplishments are based on NDHS 2017 results.
Vision
For Filipino women and men achieve their desired family size and fulfill the reproductive
health and rights for all through universal access to quality family planning information
and services.
Mission
In line with the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus strategy and Universal Health
Care framework, the National Family Planning Program is committed to provide
responsive policy direction and ensure access of Filipinos to medically safe, legal, non-
abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods.
Objectives
Program Components
Component A: Provision of free FP Commodities that are medically safe, legal, non-
abortifacient, effective and culturally acceptable to all in need of the FP service:
Apart from the routine means of FP service delivery, the National Family Planning
Program also employs the following main strategies to ensure universal access to FP:
NATURAL:
You can only use the Standard Days Method if:
o Your menstrual cycle is really regular (your periods always come at the same
time).
o Your cycle is never shorter than 26 days.
o Your cycle is never longer than 32 days.
o You’re okay with either not having vaginal sex or using birth control from day 8
through day 19 of each cycle.
To use the Standard Days method, you simply don’t have vaginal sex or use another
method of birth control on days 8-19 of your cycle.
Most people using the Standard Days method use an app or have a special string of
beads, called CycleBeads, that helps them keep track of their cycles. CycleBeads have
33 colored beads and a black rubber ring that moves from bead to bead.
Basal Body Temperature is used to identify the fertile and infertile period of a woman’s
cycle by daily taking and recording the rise and fall in body temperature during and after
ovulation. Woman’s BBT falls about half a degree before day of ovulation and BBT rises
a full degree at time of ovulation.
The Billings ovulation method is a method in which women use their vaginal mucous
to determine their fertility. It does not rely on the presence of ovulation, rather it identifies
patterns of potential fertility and obvious infertility within the cycle, whatever its length.
Effectiveness, however, is not very clear.
ARTIFICAL:
Condom is a thin sheath of latex rubber made to fit on a man’s erected penis, it
prevents the passage of sperm into the internal vagina.
Injectables contain synthetic hormone, progestin which suppresses ovulation; thickens
cervical mucus thus making it difficult for sperm to pass through
Oral Contraceptive Pills contain hormones: estrogen and progesterone, taken daily to
prevent conception. It also reduces gynaecological symptoms like painful menstruation
and reduce the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers
Intrauterine Device is a long term birth control that is a small, T-shaped plastic device
that is wrapped in coppe or contains hormones. A plastic string is ties of the IUD hangs
down through cervix into vagina. It can last up to 10 years.
PERMANENT:
Vasectomy prevents passage of sperm because the vas deferens is blocked or cut
Bilateral Tubal Ligation involves cutting or blocking of the 2 fallopian tubes.
Family planning provides many benefits to mother, children, father, and the family.
Mother
Children
Father
Provide counselling among the clients will help increase FP acceptors and avoid
defaulters
o To inform, educate and convince mothers on the use of family planning
methods
o To inform and discuss the importance and benefits/advantages
/disadvantages of family planning
o To inform its side effects, complications and what to do if problems
develop
o to inform the effectiveness of FP methods
Provide packages of health services among reproductive age group in all health
facilities
o Family planning
o MCHN
o Management of reproductive tract infections including STIs/HIV/AIDS
o Violence against women
o Management of breast and other reproductive cancers
Ensure the availability of FP supplies and logistics for the client.
Retrieved from:
https://www.doh.gov.ph/national-safe-motherhood-program
https://www.doh.gov.ph/family-planning
Cuevas et al (2007). The Family planning program. Public Health Nursing in the
Philippines. p133