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Strengthening Communities, Saving Lives: Suicide Prevention Month
Suicide Prevention Month, which takes place every September, draws global attention to a silent crisis that ongoingly claims the lives of people of every age, families, and communities. Nearly 720,000 people taking their lives each year and countless more attempting to do so, suicide is the third learning cause of death among 15 to 29…
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CHD conducts Basic Health Orientation for Bulacan lay leaders
Yesterday, the Council for Health and Development gave a Basic Health Orientation (BHO) to the lay-leaders of Muling Pagkabuhay Parish in Meycauayan, Bulacan. The BHO discussed the current deteriorating state of our healthcare system, the government’s negligence to people’s health and giving up its responsibility to corporations and the role of community-based health programs (CBHPs)…
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Free, comprehensive and progressive public health system is needed for healthy beginnings, hopeful futures – PHM-Philippines and CPRH
The World Health Organization celebrates World Health Day today, 7 April with the theme “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures”. The People’s Health Movement Philippines and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health both assert that healthy beginnings and hopeful futures are founded on a public health care system that is free, comprehensive and progressive. Where systemic…
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Pagpamulong: A Mission for Health and Equality in Roxas City, Capiz
A medical mission was successfully held in Brgy. Cagay, Roxas City on December 7, 2024 coordinated and organized by the Balangaw Network, a coalition of LGBT groups and their advocates in partnership with Council for Health and Development (CHD), National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), Order of Asclepius – West Visayas State University College of…
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Reviving Community Health: Basic health skills training of future CHWs recommences in Guimba, Nueva Ecija
The staff and volunteers of the Council for Health and Development (CHD), in partnership with the Nueva Ecija Community-Based Health Program (NE-CBHP), conducted a two-day training at Brgy. Casongsong, Guimba, Nueva Ecija on November 18 and 19, 2023. The training consisted of a lecture on the signs and symptoms of common diseases such as cough…
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National organization of community-based health programs join various organizations in condemning the bombing of hospitals in Palestine
Quezon City, Philippines – Various sectors and organizations including the Council for Health and Development hold a protest action in Boy Scout Circle, Timog Ave., Quezon City on Wednesday, Oct. 18 against the ongoing bombing in Gaza by US-backed Israeli government. The Zionist government drop bombs and missiles in Gaza, destroying homes, hospitals, schools and…
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Health groups call for immediate and independent investigation of DOH’s P7.431 billion worth of expired medicines
With the Department of Health’s (DOH) wastage of P7.431 billion worth of medicines, drugs, and other inventory as flagged by the Commission on Audit recently, the Council for Health and Development and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health today expressed how inefficiencies in a faulty system aggravate inequality that lead to pain, suffering, or…
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Message of solidarity of the Council for Health and Development to the 54th anniversary of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines
What more can we say to you but “thank you”? On your fifty-fourth year, no words can ever capture how your selfless work changed so many lives and bore men and women of faith to walk paths less travelled — without fear or question. Because you led by example that there is nothing to fear…
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In Philippines, a hospital serves people on the peripheries
This article is from Global Sisters Report, written by Sr. Edita Eslopor, a member of CHD Board of Trustees. Original article can be found here: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/columns/philippines-hospital-serves-people-peripheries The heart of health care is reaching out to offer relief and well-being to all people, especially the deprived, the underserved — those on the periphery. When we cure,…
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Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis
Geneva, Switzerland — Philippine human rights defenders personally brought concerns gravely affecting the Filipino people to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its Special Procedures mandate holders. The organizations Center for Environmental Concerns, Coalition for People’s Right to Health, Council for Health and Development, IBON Foundation, Kilusang Mayo Uno, and…
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