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The Department of Health (DOH), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Interagency Task Force (UNIATF) on the Preventio ...
WHO and UNICEF back the Department of Health in vaccinating 1.8 million children against polio
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are supporting the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) in the synchronized polio vaccination campa ...
WHO, UNICEF and partners support Philippine Department of Health’s polio outbreak response
The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) today announced an outbreak of polio in the country. A poliovirus case was confirmed on 16 September 2019 in a 3-year-old girl from Lanao ...
‘We are the community’: Scaling up PrEP through community-based organizations in the Philippines
On the third floor of a nondescript building along Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong, Philippines, is a community centre that offers comprehensive HIV-related services. This centre is ...
HIV testing in the Philippines: What is the best option for you?
There is an urgent need to step up HIV testing services in the Philippines. HIV testing is crucial in ensuring that people living with HIV are diagnosed and treated early, or if th ...
Junaisa: A little girl with polio
Since the announcement of the polio outbreak last September 2019, a 3-year-old girl from Lanao del Sur has been identified as the first confirmed polio case in the Philippines sinc ...
Polio and an opportunity to strengthen UHC
Yesterday was World Polio Day. Other countries may reflect on polio as a thing of the past, but in the Philippines, we are concerned to see its recent reemergence. The terrible new ...
PH must act to eliminate hepatitis
Chances are someone in your family is infected with hepatitis virus, but might not be aware of it. In the Philippines, around one in 10 people have chronic hepatitis B, and six in ...
Food safety is everybody’s responsibility
Everyone has the right to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. Still today, almost one in 10 people in the world fall ill, and 420,000 die after eating contaminated food. When foo ...
Dr Rabindra Abeyasinghe
WHO Representative in the Philippines
Region’s leaders discuss need to protect health in relation to climate change and the environment
The seventieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific concluded today after discussions on climate change and environmental health.
Region’s health leaders pledge to tackle antimicrobial resistance and strengthen tobacco control
Health leaders at the seventieth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific today endorsed action plans to fight antimicrobial resist ...
Regional action to protect children from harmful impact of food marketing and promote healthy ageing
Health ministers from across the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region today endorsed an action plan to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing ...
Health ministers endorse WHO five-year plan to make the Western Pacific the healthiest, safest region
Health ministers and senior officials representing the 37 countries and areas of the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region today agreed on priorities for WHO’s wor ...
Outbreak and emergencies in the Western Pacific
