findings of the inquiry,56 the state party has not taken any step to restore access to the drug and instead has expressly prohibited national hospitals from purchasing or acquiring EC.57 Lack of access to quality and humane post-abortion care services. There has been a notable increase in the number of women seeking post-abortion care. In a report released in April 2016, the number of claims for post-abortion care under the state party’s national health insurance increased from 25,617 in 2014 to 38,353 in 2015.58 As raised in our pre-session letter, women experiencing abortion-related complications in the Philippines are frequently reported to law enforcement authorities, threatened with arrest, subjected to physical or verbal abuse, discrimination, and delays in access to or denial of care. Since the pre-session and as mentioned above, the DoH has taken steps to review the PMAC policy. In October 2015, the DoH created a technical working group to draft a comprehensive post-abortion care policy keeping in mind the RPRHA’s guarantees of “humane, nonjudgmental, and compassionate” treatment and counseling of women with post-abortive complications. 59 Pending approval of this new policy, it remains unclear what steps the state party has taken to implement the existing PMAC policy and ensure compassionate, non-judgmental and quality post-abortion care in all public and private health facilities guaranteed both under the MCW and RPRHA, as a means to prevent and address the ongoing systematic and pervasive mistreatment of women. Since the pre-session, the state party has also not taken any step to reintroduce misoprostol which has been classified as an essential medicine by the World Health Organization for the prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage, management of incomplete abortion and miscarriage, induction of labor, and medical abortion.60 As discussed in our pre-session letter, misoprostol has remained an unregistered drug for over a decade in the Philippines because of strong opposition to its use as an abortifacient.61 5. Please supply updated information and disaggregated data on the situation of education for women and girls in the State party. In particular, please provide information on…(e) The integration of age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health and rights education in the school curricula at all levels of education…. (para. 11) As discussed in our pre-session letter, the state party has yet to adopt guidelines for the age- and development-appropriate reproductive health education called for under the RPRHA. 62 While recent developments reflect that the state party has taken steps to include sexual and reproductive health and rights education in the school curricula, these measures fall short of the guarantees under the RPRHA. Response of state party. In its reply to the LOIs, the state party reported that, pursuant to the RPRHA “sexual and reproductive health and rights education are integrated in the primary and secondary school curricula, as well as in courses offered in higher