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Congratulations to the New Community Health Workers of Pasig!
Congratulations to the New Community Health Workers of Pasig! On July 12, 2026, the Council for Health and Development (CHD) successfully held the graduation ceremony for the Community Health Workers (CHWs) who completed the Basic Health Skills Training. The newly trained CHWs from Sitio Mangga and Sitio Lupang Mitra in Barangay Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City, are…
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The People’s Fight for Land and Life: A Medical and Psychosocial Mission in Dupax Del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya
On March 16-18, the Council for Health and Development (CHD) partnered with environmentalist group Defend Nueva Vizcaya Movement and other health organizations including Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR), Philippines Nursing Students Association (PNSA), and Health Action for Democracy (HEAD) to conduct a medical mission at Dupax Del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya. It is part of…
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Wading the Waters: A Humanitarian Mission in Macabebe, Pampanga
On December 8, 2025, the Council for Health and Development in partnership with the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), Consortium of People’s Development – Disaster Response (CPD-DR), Bigkis Pampanga and the Vicariate of Blessed Trinity, and volunteers from Filipino Nurses United (FNU), friends of CBHP, and interns from UP Manila Department of Behavioral Sciences…
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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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