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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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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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Empowering Communities, Serving for People’s Health: New CHWs in Nueva Ecija
The first batch of Community Health Workers graduated in Guimba, Nueva Ecija on Saturday, June 8.Fourteen Community Health Workers (CHWs) from Barangays Naglabrahan, Casongsong, three other villages in Guimba, Nueva Ecija successfully completed their Basic Health Skills Training conducted by the Nueva Ecija-Community Based Health Program (NE-CBHP). Amidst the daily toil and various challenges posed…
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Struggle for a Free, Comprehensive, State-Funded Health Care! Resist Foreign Impositions on Health! Demand for State Responsibility in People’s Health!
PRESS STATEMENT | April 7, 2024 2024 World Health Day:Struggle for a Free, Comprehensive, State-Funded Health Care! Resist Foreign Impositions on Health! Demand for State Responsibility in People’s Health! Mar Del Plata, Argentina — On the occasion of World Health Day 2024, and the opening of the 5th Peoples’ Health Assembly in Mar del Plata,…
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CHD Statement on World Health Day 2024
Today, April 7, is World Health Day, in commemoration of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. On April 5, the Council for Health and Development together with other health organizations held a protest action in front of WHO Western Pacific Region office in Manila to reject the neoliberal policies imposed on…
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+Sister Mary Celine P. Cajanding, RGS (1943-2024)
We, the Council for Health and Development, the national organization of CBHPs, extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of +Sister Mary Celine P. Cajanding, RGS (Marcelina Punzalan Cajanding) and the Religious of the Good Shepherd community. Sister Celine was an exemplary missionary and advocate of people’s health. As a guiding light with the Rural…
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Statement of the Council for Health and Development on the attack against Dr. Barroquillo
The Council for Health and Development, the national organization of more than 70 community-based health programs in the Philippines, strongly condemns another act of violence against a doctor on February 3, 2024 and enjoins the family, friends, colleagues, and patients in calling for justice and immediate investigation. Dr. Sharmaine Barroquillo, a physician working in Sultan…
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Without freedom of expression, the right to health is at risk
In a meeting yesterday, 23 January 2024, representatives of health civil society organizations joined other groups in a dialogue with Ms. Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (FoOE), during her official country visit to the Philippines. Dr. Edelina De la…
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