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Health groups call for immediate and independent investigation of DOH’s P7.431 billion worth of expired medicines
With the Department of Health’s (DOH) wastage of P7.431 billion worth of medicines, drugs, and other inventory as flagged by the Commission on Audit recently, the Council for Health and Development and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health today expressed how inefficiencies in a faulty system aggravate inequality that lead to pain, suffering, or…
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The recognition of our BHW’s role and sacrifice in our public health system must go beyond the grandiloquence
“More than the grandiloquence (rhetoric) and optic, the recognition for our Barangay Health Workers should translate to immediate and concrete socio-economic benefits in return for their years of commitment and hard work for our people.” This was the Council for Health and Development’s reaction to Sen. Bong Go’s Senate Bill No. 427 or the Barangay…
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Position paper on the proposed House Bill 290 or the E-Health Systems and Services in support of Universal Health Care using Information and Communications Technology
The Council for Health and Development, a national organization of community-based health programs in the Philippines, would like to thank the House of Representatives for its acknowledgement of the Constitution’s provision on the people’s right to health. While it is high time to maximize the benefits of technology to make healthcare available and accessible, especially…
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As the state of public health emergency is lifted, CHD demands level-up of government role in public health
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) believes that the government should substantially address key concerns in the health system coinciding with the lifting of the pandemic-induced state of public health emergency (EO 7) and its responsibility in making science-backed and pro-people public health interventions be realized to its fullest. “Apart from low hospital bed…
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On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health
On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health; despite the pandemic, inequity in access to health services has risen amid marginal changes to infrastructure and budget—failing Constitutional and international obligations to protect and fulfill the people’s right to health and its defenders The United Nations fully defines the…
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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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There is no right to health without the right to food, release the “Tinang 92”
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) is one with the farmers and land advocates in Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac in asserting for their right to land and execution of the Certificate of Land Ownership and Award (CLOA) that was first issued to them in 1995 under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Likewise, CHD…
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Amid Omicron-driven surge, testing must finally be made free and accessible to all
Amid Omicron-driven surge, testing must finally be made free and accessible to all; renewed focus on community-based interventions needed against variants Just days into the new year and the country is facing yet another surge in COVID-19 cases. With the pandemic entering its third year in the Philippines and across the world, those handling the…
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Pahayag ng Bantay Bakuna hinggil sa usapin ng “No Vaccine, No Work Policy”
Simula Agosto, nakakakuha ang mga kasamahan natin sa network ng mga ulat tungkol sa mga kumpanya na nagpapairal ng “no vaccine, no work policy”. Sa pagpapaigting ng nasyunal na programa sa pagbabakuna, laluna sa mga manggagawa, ay maraming ahensya ng gobyerno ang naglabas ng suporta para sa ganitong uri ng polisiya. Ngunit ayon sa inilabas…
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A year since the TRIPS waiver proposal, and the Philippines continues to waver on the waiver
This time last year, South Africa and India filed a proposal at the World Trade Organization seeking to remove intellectual property barriers and waive patents on diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, and technologies that will prevent, treat, and contain the pandemic. Since then, over 100 countries around the world have backed the move, including most African and…
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