DKT Philippines Foundation Unveils PH’s First Family Planning Mobile Clinic

“DKT Philippines Foundation’s mission is to provide couples with affordable, and safe options for family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention through dynamic social marketing. The SODEX mobile clinic will provide a wide array of free family planning services especially in areas with lesser access to services like the geographically isolated or socially disadvantaged areas. The mobile clinic will bring the services closer to the people and meet them where they are.” ~Loida Almendares, the Foundation’s Director of Programs

DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc. officially launches the country’s first-ever Family Planning Ambulatory Clinic.

The Official Unveiling of the Philippines First Ever SODEX (Service Outreach Distribution Extension Program) Mobile Clinic – the country’s first-ever family planning ambulatory clinic by DKT  Philippines Foundation, made possible by TRUST Reproductive Health Choices. 

DKT Philippines Foundation, a charitable non-profit organization that promotes family planning and HIV prevention, has officially opened the SODEX (Service Outreach and Distribution Extension Program) Mobile Clinic, the country's first family planning ambulatory clinic. This pioneering effort aims to provide safe and accessible modern family planning methods to Filipinos in remote areas, bridging the gap between Filipinos seeking to space and limit pregnancy and disparities in Family Planning service provision.

From left: DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc.’s Director of Programs Loida Almendares, DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc.’s Chair of the Board Denise van Dijk, Department of Health Undersecretary and Cluster Lead of Public Health Services Cluster Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao, Binangonan, Rizal Mayor Hon. Cesar M. Ynares, and Voluntary Surgical Contraception (VSC) Surgeon Dr. Luis R. Garcia, Jr.

From left: DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc.’s Director of Programs Loida Almendares, DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc.’s Chair of the Board Denise van Dijk, Department of Health Undersecretary and Cluster Lead of Public Health Services Cluster Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao, Binangonan, Rizal Mayor Hon. Cesar M. Ynares, and Voluntary Surgical Contraception (VSC) Surgeon Dr. Luis R. Garcia, Jr.

Fellow reproductive health advocates from the public and private sectors, development partners, and family planning clients were in attendance for the official launch and blessing event.  Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao, Department of Health Undersecretary, served as the guest of honor and speaker, with special participation from the Mayor of Binangonan, Rizal. César M. Ynares.

DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc. officially launches the country’s first-ever Family Planning Ambulatory Clinic.

The SODEX Mobile Clinic offers free Family Planning services.

The SODEX Mobile Clinic is an innovation designed to improve the DKT Philippines Foundation's SODEX Program and contribute to the DOH's 8-Point Action Agenda and National Health Objectives.

The mobile clinic will offer free Family Planning products such as pills, condoms, injectables, and intrauterine devices. It will also provide free bilateral tubal ligation (BTL) under local anaesthesia and non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). The clinic is being staffed by a physician/surgeon trained in BTL, NSV, IUD, and subdermal implant services, as well as an FP-trained nurse and midwife, circulating staff, and a driver. To ensure that all clients are well-informed and fit to receive the services, they will go through counseling and a final screening before receiving the method.

DKT Philippines Foundation aims to cultivate Filipinos' desire to meaningfully participate and contribute to government efforts to achieve universal health coverage by forming long-term partnerships with 30 LGUs in Luzon.

“DKT Philippines Foundation and its Family Planning Mobile Clinic reinforce DKT’s commitment to ensuring nobody is left behind and provides free and quality reproductive health options including permanent methods, to those most remote and vulnerable communities. Made possible by the sales of family planning products under the TRUST Reproductive Health Choices brand, the mobile clinic ensures that people who still cannot afford the highly affordable TRUST products, or cannot access the reproductive health services they need in the public sector, are not left behind and still have free access to these services. It is a part of a total market approach, complementing the important work the local LGUs do on a daily basis.” ~Denise van Dijk, Chair of the Board of DKT Philippines Foundation

DKT Philippines Foundation, Inc.’s Chair of the Board Denise van Dijk delivers a message. 

The mobile clinic will travel for 119 days, providing free services in the provinces of Central Luzon, North Luzon, Cordillera, MIMAROPA, and CALABARZON, with the first stop being Binangonan, Rizal, where the launch occurred. The clinic will remain in one location for a day or two, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. By next year, the mobile clinic will serve communities in Visayas and Mindanao. 

Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao, Department of Health Undersecretary and Cluster Lead of Public Health Services Cluster delivers a key message.

Binangonan, Rizal Mayor Hon. Cesar M. Ynares officially starts the program with a message.

The DKT Philippines Foundation's programs and free services are made possible by the country's leading contraceptive brand, TRUST Reproductive Health Choices, which is distributed by the social enterprise DKT Health, Inc.