FACT CHECK: OLD report on HIV cases among OFWs passed off as new
Netizens are sharing an old report about 166 overseas Filipino workers testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus misleadingly passing it off as recent.
Netizens are sharing an old report about 166 overseas Filipino workers testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus misleadingly passing it off as recent.
Inilagay ang Pilipinas sa gray list matapos matukoy ng FATF ang 18 kakulangan na dapat resolbahin ng gobyerno para epektibong labanan ang money laundering at terrorism financing sa bansa.
The Philippines was placed on the gray list after the FATF identified 18 deficiencies that the government must resolve to effectively counter money laundering and terrorism financing in the country.
Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang kanyang administrasyon ay naglalagay ng "patuloy na tulong" para sa proteksyong panlipunan at kabuhayan "sa tuktok" ng listahan ng prayoridad nito. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
Although the Marcos administration placed “social protection” as one of its budget priorities for “human capital development,” Sonny Africa, executive director of the nonprofit IBON Foundation, noted that the total allocation for these programs in 2023 is P33.28 billion less than the P262.67 billion for 2022.
The guidelines for OFWs “have not changed,” Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Programs Services Division staff Krista Zulueta told VERA Files Fact Check in a phone interview on March 11.
It cherry-picks eight of 13 senators who authored the Universal Health Care Law.
A key feature of the document is to afford mechanisms for ASEAN migrants such as labor contracts and legal representation.
By JAKE SORIANO A top foreign affairs official said some 2,000 overseas Filipino workers, all of them victims of human trafficking, remain trapped in Syria three years after civil unrest broke out there. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Senior Special Assistant Renato Villa said during a migration conference earlier this week the Philippine government is
By CHERRY JOY VENILES WITH almost four decades of sustained and large‐scale migration of Filipinos to foreign countries, the Philippines has emerged as one of the major migrant‐sending nations, next to China and India. But it has also fallen into the trap of calling every Filipino overseas an Overseas Filipino Worker or OFW, clouding the