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Tag: DOH

  • virologist - internews story part 2 thumbnail.png
    Categories News

    Virologists as gatekeepers: Local scientists prepare for the next pandemic

    By Klaire Ting and Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  Nov 30, 2021 9:54 AM

    Months after the World Health Organization (WHO) identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, a team of virologists from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was tasked to focus on a project to assess the pandemic potential of local animals.

    COVID-19, DOH, DOST, epidemic, One Health, Pandemic

  • poultry farmer - internews story part 1 thumbnail.jpg
    Categories News

    A bird’s-eye view: Poultry farmers as front liners against potential avian flu outbreaks

    By Klaire Ting and Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  Nov 29, 2021 4:42 PM

    AI, a “highly contagious viral disease,” infects several species of birds, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The virus causing it can be transmitted from bird to bird, bird to human and eventually spread to other humans.

    Avian Influenza, BAI, COVID-19, DOH, One Health, zoonosis, zoonotic diseases

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Look Who’s Talking

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 29, 2021 4:08 PM

    What’s the real score? Here’s one take from our listening post.

    COP9, DFA, DOH, Teddy Locsin Jr, WHO, WHO FCTC

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Ang paninindigan ng PH gov’t sa industriya ng tabako, novel products

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 15, 2021 11:45 PM

    Tumaas ang tensyon sa pagitan ng Department of Health (DOH) at ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) sa ikasiyam na sesyon ng Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). Hindi nagkasundo ang dalawang ahensya ng gobyerno sa mga pangunahing isyu na kinasasangkutan ng novel tobacco products.

    DFA, dirty ashtray award, DOH, novel tobacco products, tobacco, Tobacco industry, WHO FCTC

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Fact Sheet News Seeing through the Smoke

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The PH gov’t stance on tobacco industry, novel products

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 15, 2021 11:30 PM

    Tensions ran high between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The two government agencies did not see eye to eye on key issues involving novel tobacco products.

    DFA, dirty ashtray award, DOH, novel tobacco products, tobacco, Tobacco industry, WHO FCTC

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    Categories Editor's Pick News Seeing through the Smoke

    DOH, DFA at loggerheads on tobacco issue in global health meet

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 10, 2021 5:59 PM

    As one of the 10 co-heads of the Philippine delegation in the ongoing virtual Conference of the Parties 9 (COP9) of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Geneva, Switzerland, Locsin described tobacco use as useful and beneficial because “taxes on a vice are called salutary.”

    COP9, DFA, DOH, tobacco

  • three-govt-agencies-put-pressure-on-congress-to-scrap-bill-on-vapes-e-cigarettes.png
    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Three govt agencies put pressure on Congress to scrap bill on vapes, e-cigarettes

    By Klaire Ting  |  Sep 16, 2021 9:24 AM

    The Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education (DepEd) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) joined medical practitioners and youth leaders on Wednesday in asking Congress to reject the bill that seeks to lower the age of persons who can buy, use or sell vapes and electronic cigarettes.

    deped, DOH, e-cigarettes, FDA, smoking, vape, vaping

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Go DID NOT remove Robredo, Duque from office

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 09, 2021 10:15 AM

    Robredo does not hold any Cabinet post from which she can be removed. In the case of Duque, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go only advised him during a Senate blue ribbon committee hearing to address the findings of the Commission on Audit on the “deficiencies” in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of the pandemic.

    Bong Go, DOH, Duque, Duterte, Francisco Duque III, Leni Robredo, Robredo, Rodrigo Duterte

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, Duque is NOT going to jail over the COA-flagged P67B DOH funds

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 06, 2021 10:50 AM

    There is no report of any imprisonment as there are no cases filed against the health secretary, although the Senate blue ribbon committee and the House committee on public accounts began last month separate inquiries into the DOH’s handling of COVID-19 multi-billion funds following a recent Commission on Audit (COA) report flagging “deficiencies” in the agency’s pandemic budget.

    COA, commission on audit, DOH, Duque

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that DOH does not monitor vaccine-related deaths FALSE

    By VERA Files  |  Aug 17, 2021 10:57 PM

    The DOH does track fatalities and serious adverse effects following immunization.

    COVID-19, DOH, health misinformation, vaccine

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