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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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Proposed health budget for 2026 is fatal to people’s health, push for 5% of GDP for health instead
Today, health advocates and health workers under the banner of the Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) decried the Marcos administration’s proposed P320.5-billion for health in 2026. The amount is a combination of the proposed budgets for the Department of Health, Philhealth, and government-owned and controlled corporation hospitals. CPRH cites the proposal as a…
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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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State recognition and support for health workers’ rights is imperative to protect our right to health
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health fully supports Ms. Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in her report to the Human Rights Council fifty-ninth session on health and care workers as defenders of the right to…
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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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Pondo ng taumbayan, ibalik sa kalusugan
Mariing kinokondena ng Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) ang hakbangin ng gobyerno na ibalik sa kabang-yaman nito ang “excess funds” o diumano’y sobrang pondo ng Philhealth at ilagay ito sa unprogrammed appropriations na sa esensya ay pork barrel. Naninindigan ang CPRH na karumal-dumal na tawaging sobra ang pondong ito gayong naghihingalo ang pampublikong…
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On the worsening rice crisis and its effects on people’s health
The Philippines has been living the irony of being an agricultural and agrarian country with 70% of its population are farmers and farm workers but the country remains the top importer of rice in the world [1]. Despite being a staple in every Filipino family’s table and Pres. Marcos Jr.’s promise of bringing the price…
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Statement on the Supreme Court’s issuance of TRO on the transfer of P89.9B PhilHealth fund to the National Treasury
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the transfer of P89.9 billion of PhilHealth funds to the national treasury. This would not be possible if not for the petitioners and the people’s collective struggle. The remaining P29.9 billion was set to…
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Strengthen the solidarity of CHWs to further serve the community: General Assembly of CHWs held in Quezon City
Community Health Workers held a General Assembly of Parish-based Health Workers on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at the Ina ng Buhay Parish in Novaliches, Quezon City. It was attended by 39 CHWs from Bagong Silangan, Capri, Gulod, and Nagkakaisang Nayon in Quezon City and from Caloocan City and Valenzuela City. During the General Assembly, Ms.…
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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…
Council for Health and Development (CHD) 