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70% adult Filipinos not use birth control
measures
About 70 percent of adult Filipinoshave not used
any form of birth control despite the acknowledgment
of 96 percent that a family planning program is
needed, a survey released Saturday said.
According to the survey by the Social Weather
Stations (SWS) conducted in late November and
early December, pills were the most popular form
of birth control, used by 14 percent of 1,200
interviewed adult Filipinos.
The "natural" family planning methods
allowed by the Roman Catholic church have only
been adopted by about five percent, suchas the
rhythm and the so-called "mucus billings"
method, the survey said.
The government has launched a "door-to-door"
campaign to promote family planning, which, as
the survey found, is believed by 96 percent of
respondents to be useful to control the country'sballooning
population.
The Philippines with a population of 84 million
has been warnedby economists and multilateral
lenders of major risks if it keep its population
growing at the rate of 2.3 percent.
However, the government has to remove the resistance
from the Catholic church before it implements
population control programs which involve artificial
contraceptives.
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