News & Updates
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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…
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A heart for health workers
On Valentine’s Day, the Council for Health and Development is one with all Filipino health workers in calling out the Philippine government for what the Alliance of Health Workers dub as “continued and outright negligence to their safety, protection, rights and welfare by implementing inhumane and anti-health workers’ policies.” Despite the same risks that our…
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Community Health Workers at ang community pantry
Nagbukas ngayong araw ang community pantry sa Brgy. Bagong Silangan, Quezon City ang Parish Social Action Ministry at Community Health Workers (CHW) ng Samahan ng Manggagawang Kristyano sa Pamayanan (SMKP) sa pakikipagtulungan ng kanilang Kura Paroko Fr. Emman Vallega, O. Carm.Ang mga gulay na kanilang ipinamimigay ay nagmula sa proyektong urban farming ng lungsod na…
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CHWs finished their basic health skills training despite the pandemic
For the first time, it was a face-to-face get together of two batches of Community Health Workers (CHWs) who have finished their Basic Health Skills Training Levels 1 and 2 in Brgy. Bagong Silangan, Quezon City. Apart from their role as CHWs, these volunteers trained by Council for Health and Development are also contact tracers.…
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“Love is the reason why you are here.” CHWs graduation ceremony in Tanay, Rizal
“Pag-ibig ang dahilan kung bakit kayo naririto.” (Love is the reason why you are here.) These were the words of Sr. Aurora during the graduation of the second batch of Community Health Workers (CHW) in Tanay, Rizal. Her fellow Benedictine nun Sr. Alice added, “Hinirang at tinawag kayo ng Diyos. Para saan? Para maglingkod sa…
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