The Philippine Family Planning Handbook (2023) Edition

Under the Philippines’ Universal Health Care (UHC) Law, family planning (FP) service has

been identified as one of the essential healthcare packages in the health care delivery system.

It includes the provision of ethical and medically safe, legal, accessible, affordable, nonabortifacient,

effective and quality reproductive health care services, and supplies essential

in the promotion of people’s right to health, especially those of women, the poor, and the

marginalized, and shall be incorporated as a component of basic healthcare.