CEDAW/C/PHL/CO/7-8/Add.1 Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Services Addressing the unmet need for contraception; expanding the public health insurance system to cover costs of modern contraceptive methods 39. There is decreasing trend in unmet need for FP among currently married women, from 30% in 1993 to 17% in 2017. The percentage of currently married women using modern contraceptive methods increased from 25% in 1993 to 40% in 2017. The demand for FP that is satisfied with modern contraceptive methods likewise increased from 35% in 1993 to 57% in 2017. The highest source of modern contraceptive methods comes from the public sector, specifically at the Barangay (village) Health Stations. 40. More women are now using modern FP methods over traditional methods. Use of traditional methods slowly declined fro m 18.3% in 1998 to 17.5% in 2013, dropping significantly to 13.9% in 2017. This reflects the State ’s successful efforts in educating women on the use of more effective contraceptive methods. 41. The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) cov ers the costs of modern contraceptive methods. Benefit payment for RPRH -related services steadily increased in the last four years from PhP11.3 billion in 2014 to PhP23.8 billion in 2017, higher by 15% to 2016 payments. Furthermore, there were more PhilHea lthaccredited facilities that provided RPRH services in 2017: 763 public hospitals and infirmaries; 2,455 Primary-Care-Benefit providers in cities/municipalities; and 3,243 public and private Maternity-Care-Package providers. 42. Bills addressing the needs of adolescent girls were filed calling for the (a) lowering of the minimum age from 18 to 15 years old to avail of HIV testing and counselling without the need for parental consent, (b) preventing adolescent pregnancy, and (c) strengthening the national and local health and nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, teenage mothers, infants, and young children in the first 1,000 days. 43. Policy measures to expand adolescents’ access to services were issued, covering the following concerns: • Nationwide adoption of the “Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents in the Philippines”; • Development by the Council for the Welfare of Children of the Protocol on the Provision of Proxy Consent for HIV-Testing Services of Children Vulnerable/at Risk of HIV; • Defining the levels of standards for Adolescent Friendly Facilities in educational institutions; • Adoption and dissemination of the Adolescent Health and Development Program Manual of Operations to program managers and implementers; • Updating of the Department of Education’s K-12 curriculum to meet the Comprehensive Sexual Education Standards. Ensuring that non-biased and rights-based counselling and information on sexual and reproductive health services are provided 44. In conducting demand generation activities to increase access to modern FP services, the State mobilized its health workers, population workers, and commu nity volunteers to conduct Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning (RPFP) classes, identify couples and individuals with unmet need for modern FP, and refer clients to 6/9 18-19201