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Coalition for People’s Right to Health urges Congress to pass historic health bills: 5% GDP budget and full VAT exemption for essential medicines
Manila, Philippines – The Coalition for People’s Right to Health today strongly endorsed two critical legislative measures currently under consideration in Congress. These bills represent a fundamental shift toward a truly equitable and accessible public health system. We call on lawmakers to immediately pass the bill mandating at least 5% of the Gross Domestic Product…
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Coalition for People’s Right to Health Rejects Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s “Pro-Life” Justification of the War on Drugs
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health firmly rejects Senator Cayetano’s recent characterization of the war on drugs as a “pro-life campaign.” This framing is not only dangerously misleading but also ignores the catastrophic human cost of decades of punitive enforcement. Labeling a campaign defined by extrajudicial killings, mass incarceration, and systemic stigma as a…
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Statement of the Council for Health and Development Regarding the Dismissal of the CERNET 27 Case
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) welcomes with cautious optimism the Regional Trial Court Branch 74 in Cebu City’s decision on May 15, 2026, to dismiss the terrorism financing charges against the 27 council members and staff of the Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET). This ruling, released on May 18, 2026, is not merely…
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The People’s Fight for Land and Life: A Medical and Psychosocial Mission in Dupax Del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya
On March 16-18, the Council for Health and Development (CHD) partnered with environmentalist group Defend Nueva Vizcaya Movement and other health organizations including Health Action for Human Rights (HAHR), Philippines Nursing Students Association (PNSA), and Health Action for Democracy (HEAD) to conduct a medical mission at Dupax Del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya. It is part of…
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Webinar | Community Health Workers in the Philippines: Community Action for Health and Social Justice
Join us on Friday, April 17 6:00 – 7:00 PM on a webinar on Community Health Workers in the Philippines: Community Action for Health and Social Justice organized by Viva Salud België and Council for Health and Development, hosted by Medicus Mundi International – Network Health for All (MMI)! Click the link to register for…
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Celebrate and salute the women of the world! Defeat imperialism! Onward with the struggle for liberation, justice, and genuine equality!
On this year’s commemoration of International Working Women’s Day, the Council for Health and Development and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health honors the courage, labor, and unyielding spirit of women across the globe–women who have stood firm against exploitation, fascism, colonial plunder, racism, and all forms of oppression. March 8 is not only…
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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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Just Wage and Better Welfare for Health Workers! End the Systemic Corruption and Fight for a Free Public Health System!
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health, Council for Health and Development together with other progressive health organizations are in solidarity with the health workers fighting for just wage, job security and rights. Today, Feb. 13, health workers from various public and private hospitals marched to Mendiola to protest against the unjust wages, delayed benefits,…
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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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