Promoting best practices in the Philippines. Update and dissemination of the Philippine Clinical Standards Manual on Family Planning 2006. National Launching and Stakeholders Meeting The 2006 Philippine Clinical Standards Manual on Family Planning August 30 2006 Heritage Hotel Pasay City.

JHPIEGO received funding through the ACCESS-FP Program to assist the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) in revising its national resource document for family planning. The Philippines DOH Reproductive Health/Family Planning Clinical Standards Manual is the national resource document for the implementation of the family planning program in the Philippines. There have been two editions the last of which was prepared in 1997 through the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the last revision there have been many new policy changes as well as changes in the World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Eligibility Criteria. The 1997 guidelines also did not filter down through the system and have an impact on service delivery practices highlighting the need to address profound operational and policy barriers. JHPIEGO worked with the Philippines DOH to effectively support the update and operationalization of the Philippines National Reproductive Health/Family Planning Guidelines. The result is an updated national family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) guidelines document that is evidence-based and adheres to the latest WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria. A team of leading Filipino authorities on family planning together with Drs. Ricky Lu and Cesar Maglaya from JHPIEGO reviewed the technical content of the manual. (excerpt)