Many municipalities and provinces have suffered financing shortfalls causing the diversion of health funds to other priorities. There was also no prior development of health staff including those retained by the DoH, or local government executives and officials for their new roles in a devolved environment. BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN Tuberculosis (TB) is the most…

In the last preliminary investigation of the controversial Subic rape case in Olongapo City, prosecution lawyer Katrina Legarda raised alarm over the perceived bias of the country’s justice system for the six U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina. A judge who is also a former prosecutor says Legarda has reason to feel threatened. BY…

“We should be out there and we should be telling everybody else and we should do our part in seeing to it that this does not happen again. Not to another woman, not to another girl, definitely not to our youth,” a participant told the audience. By Angely Chi DAVAO CITY — The alleged rape…