RH law can reduce maternal, newborn deaths – NGO

THE Philippines is among the top 10 countries in the world where there is great inequality in newborn deaths between the richest and poorest populations, according to a Save the Children study entitled, Ending Newborn Deaths: Ensuring Every Baby Survives, which was launched over the weekend.

Thus, the children’s aid agency said that “by implementing the Reproductive Health Law and allowing women and adolescent girls to have access to reproductive health services and information, the lives of these women, adolescent girls and their newborns can be saved. This is crucial especially now when the incidence of teen pregnancy in the country is increasing.“