News & Updates
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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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“Which country was last in the ASEAN region to receive COVID-19 vaccines?” Health and Vaccine Equity (HaVE) Summit on June 16
The Philippines was the last country to officially receive COVID-19 vaccines among ASEAN member states. This translated to Filipinos being vaccinated less or later than our neighbors in the region, who had started mass vaccination campaigns as early as December 2020. In fact, figures from Our World in Data reveal that the Philippines ranks among
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Preparing to serve the people, future CHWs train on basic health skills
The Council for Health and Development in partnership with the Parish-Based Health Program (PBHP) under the Health and Nutrition Program of the Diocese of Novaliches conducted a First Aid Training on May 17 and 19, 2023. The participants were trainee Community Health Workers (CHWs) from the Sacred Heart Parish in Brgy. Caybiga, Caloocan together with
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After a successful two-day medical mission, health workers stopped at military checkpoint in Kalinga
Health organizations who took part in a medical mission decried the harassment they experienced in military checkpoints in Kalinga. The doctors, nurses, staff and volunteers came from a two-day medical and dental mission in Brgy. Poblacion, Balbalan, Kalinga on April 18-19 which served five-hundred (500) patients from several of the upland municipality’s villages. They provided
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PHM webinar on “Stigmatization of health workers in contexts of armed conflict” on April 19
The People’s Health Movement is organizing a webinar on April 19th on the stigmatization of health workers in contexts of armed conflict. Worldwide health workers are facing different kinds of repression; significant part of them are stigmatized or red-tagged when working in conflict zones. They are portrayed as the enemy. And if they persist and
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CHD discussed the Philippine health situation and CBHP to the international students conducting field research in Malate, Manila
Yesterday, Council for Health and Development discussed the current health situation in the Philippines and the community-based health program to the students of International Master of Arts in Diaconic Management (IMADM) of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM) in Shalom Hotel, Malate, Manila. It is part of the UEM’s IMADM Students’ Field Research in Metro Manila.
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CHD participated in IPHU short course in Bangkok, Thailand
Representatives from Council for Health and Development and IBON Foundation completed their short course on “Action for Equitable Health Systems – Advancing universal comprehensive primary health care in pandemic times” by International People’s Health University (IPHU) in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6-11, 2022. This short course aims to build a better understanding among health activists
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The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vague
PRESS STATEMENTHealth groups Alliance of Health Workers, Coalition for People’s Right to Health, Filipino Nurses United, Health Action for Human Rights, Health Alliance for Democracy, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association expressed their critique and counter-proposals to the recent SONA of Pres. Marcos Jr. The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vagueIn the principles of
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Health groups participate in a consultation workshop on UN Universal Periodic Review
Quezon City, Philippines — Various civil society organizations (CSOs), including Council for Health and Development, Bantay Bakuna and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health participated in “CSOs Consultation on the UN Universal Periodic Review of the Philippines”, a two-day consultation workshop held from June 22 to 23, 2022 in Quezon City, National Capital Region.
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CHD and other health organizations participated in “Picnic sa Bantayog” in Quezon City, sets up a health booth.
Yesterday, the Council for Health and Development, together with the Health Alliance for Democracy, Health Action for Human Rights, Alliance of Health Workers, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association set-up a health booth during the “Picnic sa Bantayog” event at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Quezon City to provide free health consultations and medical check-ups to
Council for Health and Development (CHD) 