L5.2.3: PH Family Planning Program (PFPP)

• PFPP has 4 RRIBs:

  ● Responsible Parenthood

  ● Respect for Life

  ● Informed choice

  ● Birth Spacing
• Responsible Parenthood

  ● Promoted freedom of responsible parents to decide on the timing and size of their families in pursuit of a better life.
• Respect for Life

  ● RH is endorsed on the condition that it explicitly excludes abortion.

  ○ Methods must not hinder potential life — dumbed down ver.
• Birth spacing

  ● Proper spacing of three to five years from recent pregnancy enables women to recover from pregnancy and to improve their well being, the health of the child, and husband-wife and parent-child relationship.
• Informed Choice

  ● Couples and individuals may choose what they want to exercise responsible parenthood in accordance with their religious and ethical values and cultural background & subject to conformity with universall recognized international human rights.

  ○ Technically, parents can take care of their child in their own ways as long as it’s in respect of the child’s human rights — dumbed down ver.
• Informed Choice and Voluntarism (ICV)

  ○ Standard in the delivery of family planning services, ensuring that clients FREELY make their own decision based on accurate and complete information on a broad range of available modern FP methods.

  ○ Not by any special inducements or forms of coercion or misinterpretation.

  ○ Clients must be empowered and aware!

  ○ Clients are given a wide ray of options (modern FP methods) along with factual information, the final say of which to utilize is still up to the clients tho — dumbed down ver.
• Informed Consent

  ○ Written voluntary decision of a FP client, stating that they accept the particular method before undergoing the procedure.

  ■ Ex: sterilization, IUD, or implant insertion.
• POLICIES

  1.. Improvement of family welfare focus on women’s health, safe motherhood and child’s survival by:

  ● Preventing high-risk pregnancies

  ● Preventing unplanned pregnancies

  ● Reducing maternal deaths

  2. Provision of FP information based on voluntary & informed choice to all women and men of reproductive age.

  3. Provision of medically safe & legally acceptable FP methods

  4. Orientation of clients on fertility awareness

  5. Multi-agency participation involvement of private sector, academe, church, media, community, & other stakeholders
• BENEFITS

  1.. Improvement and maintenance of reproductive health

  2. Safe motherhood

  3. Child survival

  4. Reduction of reproductive tract infections

  5. Reduction of abortion

  6. Reduction of special diseases

  7. Overall improvement in the Family’s nutritional status

  8. Help shape the reproductive work

  9. Fewer children

  10. Enhances the family’s opportunity for their economic and personal development
• Children born within 2 years of an elder sibling have a 60% increased risk of infant death.

  ○ Those born within 2-3 years have a 10% increased risk compared with those born after an interval of 3 years or longer.
• CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS OVERVIEW

  ● These methods have different mechanisms of action and effectiveness in preventing unintended pregnancy.

  ● Effectiveness of methods is measured by the number of pregnancies per 100 women using the method per year.

  ● Contra + Conception

  ○ Literally means Against Pregnancy or Preventing Pregnancy.
• CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS OVERVIEW

  The most appropriate method depends on an individual’s

  ○ Overall health

  ○ Age

  ○ Frequency of sexual activity

  ○ Number of sexual partners

  ○ Desire to have children in the future

  ○ Family history of certain diseases
• CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS OVERVIEW

  Include:

  ○ Oral contraceptive pills

  ○ Implants

  ○ Injectables

  ○ Patches

  ○ Vaginal rings

  ○ Intrauterine devices (IUD)

  ○ Condoms

  ○ Male and female sterilization

  ○ Lactational amenorrhea methods

  ○ Withdrawal and fertility awareness-based methods