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Duterte launches birth control push
Governments and the dominant Catholic church have waged a bruising struggle over the issue for years. The church has long opposed efforts to make birth-control more available. Foreign and local authorities have long cited the need for improved birth control in the Philippines which has one of Asia´s highest birth rates as well as high maternal mortality rates. The country has a population just over 100 million with about 25 percent living in poverty. Duterte ordered government agencies on Wednesday to "intensify and accelerate the implementation of critical actions" to address the "unmet" family planning needs of up to six million Filipina women. Aida Santos, president of the European Union-funded women´s rights monitor WeDpro Philippines said it was a timely boost to a reproductive health law that in 2014 gave millions of poor Filipi**s access to free contraceptives for the first time. "There is such a huge need for it right **w to address serious problems such as teenage pregnancy," Santos told AFP. Despite the law, millions of Filipi** women still can**t obtain contraceptives. This is partly due to the family planning programme running on a shoestring 500 million-peso budget, according to the health department´s Commission on Population. "The important part there is that all government agencies will start inputting funds for the programme in their 2018 and 2019 budgets," the commission´s executive director Juan Antonio Perez told AFP. The government´s annual family planning budget could **w increase four-fold to the ideal level of two billion pesos, Perez said. أكثر... 
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