BUNTIS CONGRESS More than 200 pregnant women attended the 2021 Buntis Congress on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 at the Primark Town Center in Barangay Magdiwang, Noveleta, Cavite. The Noveleta local government and the rural health office distributed gift packs to all attendees. The would-be mommies also received free counseling, HIV screening, urinalysis, ultrasound, supplements, blood typing, hematocrit, hemoglobin and Hepatitis B screening. FILE PHOTO BY DENNIS ABRINA
THERE has been a decline in the number of Filipino girls who became "child-bearing" in 2021, according to a study released by the University of the Philippines Population Institute.