C. THE RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10354) or RPRH Law gives a special focus on the reproductive health rights of women. It underscores the state’s obligation to provide universal access to medically-safe, nonabortifacient, effective, legal, affordable, and quality reproductive health care services, methods, and commodities; and to eradicate discriminatory practices, laws and policies that infringe on a person’s exercise of reproductive health rights. The law enumerates the elements of reproductive health care, as follows: 1) Family planning information and services which shall include as a first priority making women of reproductive age fully aware of their respective cycles to make them aware of when fertilization is highly probable, as well as highly improbable; 2) Maternal, infant and child health and nutrition, including breastfeeding; 3) Proscription of abortion and management of abortion complications; 4) Adolescent and youth reproductive health guidance and counseling; 5) Prevention, treatment and management of reproductive tract infections (RTIs), HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmittable infections (STIs); 6) Elimination of violence against women and children and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence; 7) Education and counseling on sexuality and reproductive health; 8) Treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers and other gynecological conditions and disorders; 9) Male responsibility and involvement and men’s reproductive health; 10)Prevention, treatment and management of infertility and sexual dysfunction; 11)Reproductive health education for the adolescents; and 12)Mental health aspect of reproductive health care. The law highlights the need to ensure effective partnership among national government, local government units (LGUs) and the private sector in the design, implementation, coordination, integration, monitoring and evaluation of programs that enhance the reproductive health of the people. It also stresses the obligations of the DOH and the LGUs to give effect to its provisions. 47