By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
"Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee." – Alliance of Health Workers
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"Residents are being forced to relocate where jobs, electricity and water are scarce. Demolitions and forced evictions automatically translate to workers having to leave their sources of income and children would have to stop from going to school." Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Luz Ilagan
By MARYA SALAMAT
“The number one threat to Filipino health and job security is the US-Aquino Regime,” whose PPPs “result in privatization, in the abandonment of health as a right of the people, and in denying health workers decent wages and jobs.” – Health Alliance for Democracy.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
Media Release 26 April 2010 Candidates seeking the highest post in the land should have a clear-cut, pro-people health agenda. Otherwise, they are no different from the current dispensation from which they are all trying so hard to distance themselves. According to...
Media Release 10 April 2010 The botched transfer of the 38 illegally detained health workers to Camp Crame yesterday again highlighted the cavalier attitude of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Health Alliance for Democracy today strongly denounced the failure...
Media Release 28 March 2010 Contrary to their claims of A1 intelligence information, the Armed Forces of the Philippines actually have no evidence on the 43 health workers, not before and not even after their illegal raid and arrests. According to Health Alliance...
Media Release 20 March 2010 The Armed Forces of the Philippines is now using the Philippine National Police as a convenient scapegoat for their illegal raid and human rights violations. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, the AFP is desperately trying to...
Media Release 06 February 2010 HEAD Slams Abduction of Doctors and Health Workers in Morong, Rizal Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) strongly condemned the illegal raid and abduction of 42 community health workers and doctors who were conducting health skills...
A law passed last year to bring down the prices of drugs and medicines has not delivered on its promise, according to consumer and health advocates. It failed to break the stranglehold of huge transnational drug companies on the Philippine market. It also squandered an opportunity to develop the local pharmaceutical industry.
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