Goal 5. lmprove maternal heafth
Target 5a: Reduce by three quaners, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
Philippine lndicators
Baseline Year
Target
Miclterm
Second
Report
indicated in
20't5
Progress
(2007)
Report (2005)
0"
5.1
Maternal mortality
ratio
5.2 Proportion of births
attended
209
993)
58.8
(1 eeo)
52.2
(1
by
skilled
100.0
Fourth
MDG
Probability of
Progress
Watch
Meeting
Repoil
(2011)
Target
95-163
(2010)
Low
74.3
(200e)
Low
**
**
172
(1998)
162
162
(2006)
(2006)
(2010)
***
****
****
health personnel
Goal 5. lmprove maternal health
Target 5b: Achieve, by 20'15, universal access to reproductive health
40.0
Contraceptive
100.0
49.0***
50.6
51 .0
48.9
Low
(1 993)
(2003)
(2006)
(2008)
prevalence rate
(2011)
Antenatal care
91.2
lncreasing
96.5
(1ee3)
(2011)
coverage (at least one
visit)
Unmet need for
26.2
Decreasing
17.0***
22.O
15.7***
19.3
(1 993)
(2003)
(2006)
(2011)
familv olannino
12008)
Sources:
* National Statistical Coordination Board, MDG Watch as of September 2010, http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/mdg_watch.asp.
** National Economic and Development Authority
*** Based on the Fourth Progress Report (2010) of the Naiional Economic and Development Authority
**** National Statistical Coordination Board, MDG Watch as of October 2012, http://www.nscb.gov.ph/stats/mdg/mdg_watch.asp
5.3
5.5
5.6
Filipino children face discrimination and exploitation. The United Nations Committee on the
Rights of the Child (2009) found discrimination against children living in poverty, children with
disabilities, indigenous and minority children, including Muslim children living in Mindanao,
migrant children, street children, children living in rural areas, and children living in conflict
areas in their access to social and health services and education. The Committee noted that
the girl child still faces de facto discrimination, mainly due to societal attitudes toward girls and
women. The Committee also noted the failure to address the situation of children born out of
wedlock, "who still face discriminatory practices such as their classification as'illegitimate' and
their restricted right to inherit."
The Committee expressed concerns over the lack of a comprehensive policy to ensure that
children with disabilities have equal access to social, educational, health and other services,
noting both the high prevalence of disability among Philippine children due to a number of
causes, including malnutrition and unsanitary living conditions as a result of e)dreme poverty,
and the de facto discrimination faced by children with disabilities.
The Committee also noted the vulnerability of children, "including street children, children
involved in 'prosti-tuition' (e.9. earning for tuition fees), 'call girls/boys' (who engage in seasonal
prostitution mostly to address the emergency needs of their families or for their own upkeep),
and young female overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who work as 'entertainers'to commercial
sexual exploitation."
The Committee found a high number of women and children trafficked from, through and within
the country for purposes of sexual exploitation and labor, accompanied by a low number of
prosecutions and convictions of traffickers. The Committee identified risk factors contributing
to trafficking activities, such as persistent poverty, temporary overseas migration, growing sex
tourism, impunity and weak law enforcement.
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