Statements

  • The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vague

    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…

  • There is no right to health without the right to food, release the “Tinang 92”

    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…

  • 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

    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…

  • Pahayag ng Bantay Bakuna hinggil sa usapin ng “No Vaccine, No Work Policy”

    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…

  • A year since the TRIPS waiver proposal, and the Philippines continues to waver on the waiver

    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…

  • Statement regarding the current state of vaccination

    Statement regarding the current state of vaccination

    As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, the government must hasten their COVID-19 pandemic response and effectively address the problems of the national vaccination program. The slow vaccination of health care workers, senior citizens and persons with co-morbidities, compounded by reports of well-connected individuals and government officials jumping the line add to grave…