PMC in Philippines

The Philippine islands combine to be approximately the geographic size of Germany with a population of 105.7 million people. The Unmet need for family planning the Philippines is 22 percent, which means that if the need for family planning services in the Philippines was met, the contraceptive prevalence among married women would be approximately 69 percent (double the current rate). Pregnancy in the Philippines is far more dangerous than in the developed world. In the Philippines, women have a one in 320 chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes. In the developed world the ratio is one in 1,800.

Domestic violence is one of the challenges in the Philippines. One in four women has experienced physical or sexual violence after the age of 15. Twenty-nine percent of women who have ever been married have experienced some form of violence from her husband or partner.