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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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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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CHD, CPRH together with various sectors and organizations staged a protest action in front of the Senate of the Philippines against budget cuts on health, education and other social services.
As the 2024 national budget deliberations in the Senate started, the Council for Health and Development and Coalition for People’s Right to Health –among the co-convenors of the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI) — together with various sectors and organizations staged a protest action in front of the Senate of the Philippines on Thursday,…
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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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Position paper on the health sector’s call to increase health budget for 2024
We, the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), composed of unions, chapters and individual health workers in the public and private sectors, community-based health organizations, health professionals and students nationwide are deeply concerned on the proposed 2024 health budget. We are requesting your good office and committee to review and increase the minuscule allocation of…
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Intervention of the Council for Health and Development in the 54th Session of UN Human Rights Council
The Council for Health and Development, through the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, delivered an oral intervention through video in the interactive dialogue on economic, social and cultural rights, and COVID-19 recovery in the 54th Session of UN Human Rights Council on September 18, 2023. Full video…