Figure 24 : Mode of Transmission among Children and Adolescents, January 1984 to December 2019 FP Services Key Interventions A. Demand Generation Demand generation activities in 2019 reached a total of: • 319,755 adolescents • 37,804 adults (stakeholders, parents, teachers, etc.) National level There is also an increase in the maternal care and other health services provided to adolescent mothers [Figure 23]. Based on the 2019 data from the FHSIS, most adolescent pregnant women who have had at least four pre-natal check-ups resided in Central Luzon (18,199), Western Visayas (11,241), and SOCCSKSARGEN (10,178). • Youth for Youth (U4U) Teen Trails. POPCOM’s flagship strategy, Youth for Youth (U4U), has been sustained this year by local government units through the training of teen facilitators as peer educators. Trained facilitators were tapped as leaders for teen trails, and discussed Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health concepts spelled out in U4U. For 2019, U4U reached 17,764 young people nationwide. • Adolescent Health and Development (AHD) Learning Package. To generate interest from program implementers, and as part of its 50th Anniversary, POPCOM launched its Adolescent Health and Development (AHD) Learning Package on 19 February 2019. This Package consists of the Sexually Healthy and Personally Empowered (SHAPE) Adolescents Facilitator’s Guide; Parent-Teen Talk Interactive Sessions for Nurturing Effective Parent-Teen Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health Facilitator’s Guide and Information Service and Delivery Network (ISDN) for Adolescent Health and Development (AHD) Guidebook. Through various training sessions, POPCOM has successfully utilized this package to enhance the knowledge of local program implementors on AHD concepts and core messages. • Sexually Healthy and Personally Empowered (SHAPE) Adolescents. The SHAPE, POPCOM’s strategy to reach adolescents with life skills needed to address emerging ASRH concerns, has been updated this year. POPCOM trained a pool of peer educators or teen facilitators to assist adolescent-friendly health facilities and According to the October to December 2019 data from the HIV/AIDS & Art Registry of the Philippines, young people continue to be at risk of Human Immuno Deficiency Virus or HIV. As of December 2019, 21,491 (29%) of reported cases were 15 to 24 years old and 3,213 (4%) of all diagnosed cases were 19 years old and younger at the time of the diagnosis. From these, 194 (6%) were children less than 10 years old and 94 percent (3,019) were adolescents. Twenty-three were 10 to 14 years old, 431 were 15 to 17 years old, and 2,565 were 18 to 19 years old. Of the adolescents infected, 96 percent were infected through sexual contact wherein 351 were male-female sex, 1,866 were male-male sex, and 680 were sex with both males and females. “Teenage pregnancy has now become a national social emergency due to the staggering economic loss worth 24 to 42 billion pesos caused by early childbearing.” Ernesto Pernia, former National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary, during the Teenage Pregnancy Summit in 2019 65 2019 Annual Report Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012