Health

DOH steps up routine vaccination drive in W. Visayas

by Perla Lena/PNA The Department of Health-Center for Health Development 6 (DOH-CHD 6) is intensifying its routine vaccination drive and calling on parents to have their babies avail of the program before they...

Surgeons Perform First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant

By Carol Pearson/VOA News For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore performed...

Rising cases of measles noted among adults in SoCot

by Anna liza Cabrido/PNA Health personnel in South Cotabato have recorded increasing cases of suspected measles infection among adults. A report released by the Integrated Provincial Health Office’s (IPHO) epidemiology and surveillance unit (PESU)...

DILG urges LGUs to support DOH measles vaccination campaign

PR/PNA MANILA -- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) encouraged the local government units (LGUs) to be its proactive partners in the conduct of nationwide immunization campaign to address the...

Fear of vaccination in west Visayas ebbs

by Perla Lena/PNA Parents’ fear of children’s immunization, as a result of the Dengvaxia scare, is now waning as evidenced by the high coverage of the supplemental immunization activity (SIA) initiated by the...

Immunization gaps threaten gains on measles

WHO PR/PNA MANILA -- Measles outbreaks in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region are putting babies, children and young people at risk and threatening progress towards wiping out the disease. The region...

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