Ngayong #InternationalWomensDay, balikan natin ang pag-turnover ng napakagandang ambulansya para sa isang women's health organization close to my heart, ang Likhaan. Maraming salamat WomenBizPH at Isuzu Philippines para dito. Mabuhay ang ating laban para sa kababaihan!

In the Philippines, the pandemic has resulted in an explosion of unwanted pregnancies, because access to birth control was curtailed. Many of these unwilling mothers are teenagers, some just 15. Most women who are too poor to raise another child, unwed, or too young to bear any children seek the help of backstreet abortionists and abortion pill traders. Others turn to peddling their unwanted child. What must be done to stop the trend? Watch more Undercover Asia: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTb786lOB4Qsr5zp58blidcw ========== About Undercover Asia 9: CNA's award-winning investigative series Undercover Asia returns for the ninth season to uncover two disturbing trends in China and the unexpected fallout from the pandemic in Asia and beyond. ================ #CNAInsider #CNAInvestigates #UndercoverAsiaCNA #Philippines #FamilyPlanning For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnainsider/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/ Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider

| As the world recognizes the International Day of Action for Women's Health, Dr. Junice Melgar, director of the Likhaan Center for Women's Health, talks about the figures explaining why the country's maternal mortality rates have not improved since 1990. Back then, there were 120 deaths per 100,000 childbirths, but with an almost stagnant rate with the current 114.

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Emmeline Verzosa, Executive Director of the Philippine Commission on Women, says rape is not a joking matter in light of President Duterte's recent controversial remark at the graduation rites of the Philippine Military Academy. Dr. Junice Melgar, Director of the Likhaan Center for Women's health, says she expected the PCW to be more vocal against the President.

Such is the stigma around sex education and family planning in the Philippines that 65% of women there still do not use contraceptives. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://is.gd/subscribeguardian Five years ago the Philipp