Sexual and reproductive health

Teachers from different schools in Samar province fill out evaluation sheets during a training program on sexual, reproductive health, and rights’ (SRHR) that was conducted by Oxfam Philippines and the Family Planning Organization in the Philippines (FPOP) in Calbayog City in April. (Photo: Mark Saludes/Oxfam)

Gender and sexual rights remain untold in Philippines’ poor communities

Teenage is the common age to become a parent in a poor village in Sta. Margarita Town in Samar province where teaches.

Philippine gender rights advocates take on a disease deadlier than HIV and COVID-19

There were no mourners when they buried her. There were no flowers and there was no coffin, only a black body bag. Patricia died just exactly how she lived – abandoned.

Oxfam urges senate to address worsening impacts of Covid to women and girls

International humanitarian and development organization Oxfam urges the senate to put a gender lens on the measures being undertaken by various government agencies to address the specific and disproportionate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women and girls, and marginalized sectors.

Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health care starts with robust data

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, women's choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care have been deprioritized and ignored.