Posts by Category: Health and Nutrition

“The government should ensure that pro-reproductive rights activists are not targeted using such archaic provisions of the Philippines’ Revised Penal Code. This case shows the potential for misuse and malicious prosecution and hence the need for urgent reform to this provision of the code.”

Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.

The state of the nursing profession in the country is in need of government assistance to prevent the deterioration of…

Ten steps to successful breastfeeding highlighted during World Breastfeeding Week Geneva | Friday 30 July 2010 — During World Breastfeeding…

t would be highly offensive of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III to continue claiming that his administration is about change, about justice, about respect for human rights while the so-called “Morong 43” continue to languish in jail.

MANILA, Philippines, June 28, 2010—The Philippines did not make the list of the top 20 countries cited for their overall…

HEALTH   �The tobacco industry is training its guns and armor not for battle but to entice our young children to smoking addiction and lead them to suffer from tobacco-related deaths. Expect the industry to launch more sophisticated marketing and public relation gimmicks to penetrate the Asia Pacific market where governments are starting to implement stricter bans on smoking and tobacco advertising and promotions,� said Dr. Maricar Limpin, FCAP Executive Director.

POPULATION   Reproductive health must be viewed and not separated from the overall context of people�s health. As the economy worsens, the state of the public health system also deteriorates.

Almost two years ago, mercury in schools was a big headline. A mercury spill had occurred in a school in…