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aspects of the disease. Communities should be made aware of how environmental conditions contribute to the spread and persistence of the disease and how they can actively participate in the elimination of the disease through effective environmental control measures adapted by the community. 3. Conduct a rapid assessment of the Malaria Control Program (MCP) in order to identify its strengths, gaps and weaknesses, and institute the necessary changes/adjustments in its implementation. 4. Institute reliable monitoring and documentation mechanisms and systems in all malaria endemic areas of the country to be able to develop appropriate and culturally-sensitive intervention programs especially in communities populated by indigenous peoples. 5. Ensure the availability of suffi cient antimalarial drugs/medicines in basic public health facilities particularly in the endemic areas of the country to sustain medication/treatment of those with malaria. Tuberculosis 1. Implement the DOH initiatives of Family Package to cover children with primary complex and address the TB patient/s in every Filipino family. 2. Ensure the availability and sustainability of the DOTS program by involving the LGUs in addressing TB cases. 3. Conduct a rapid assessment of the National TB Control Program, including the DOTS and PPMD strategies to be able to identify the strengths, gaps and weaknesses of the program and its implementation. Institute the necessary changes/adjustments in the program. The effectiveness of DOTS should be gauged not only with the number of cases treated or cured in the community in a particular timeframe, but also with the number and rate of relapse cases. There is a need to evaluate the DOTS which primarily focuses on the biomedical and behavioral dimensions of the disease in the context of the broader societal environment of those infected and affected by the disease. 118 SOCIAL WATCH PHILIPPINES 4. Institute a system of monitoring the implementation of the NTC program 5. Intensify the information campaign on TB to raise public awareness on the disease and how to prevent and cure it, and control its spread. Develop IEC materials which are gender-sensitive, instructive, simple and with illustrations or drawings. These IEC materials should be made available in public health facilities particularly in areas/communities where there is a high incidence of TB. 6. Evaluate the extent and character of the problem on multi-drug resistance cases in order to effectively address the problem. References ADB Report Chapter 5. DOH. March 2003. Comprehensive and unifi ed policy for TB control in the Philippines. DOH. 2009. Philippines and World Health Organization. Joint tuberculosis programme review: Philippines. DOH. NEC. April 2010. Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry. FHSIS Report Health Status Statistics. 2006. Fourth AIDS Medium Term Plan: 2005-2010. Philippine National AIDS Council. Gonzales, E. March 29, 2010. Malaria in the Philippines. MB. IRIN Website. Philippine Daily Inquirer. February 10, 2010. “ARMM doctors alarmed by unreported HIV-AIDS cases”. “Philippines Fourth Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).” Third Draft, July 2010 (n.p.). Philippine Malaria Country Profi le. 2008. Philippines Midterm Progress Report on the MDGs. 2007. PNAC. 2010. Country report of the Philippines January 2008-December 2009. Simbulan, N.P. & Balanon, L. March 2003. “Confronting the HIV/ AIDS Problem in the Philippines: Challenges and opportunities” P2. Social Watch Philippines. 2006. Moving forward with the Millennium Development Goals: May pera pa ba? UNAIDS/WHO. 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic. July 2008. UNDP. 2010. What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals? An international assessment. USAID. Philippine country profi le. Villanueva & Santiago. 2006. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. WHO 2009. Global Tuberculosis Control: A short update to the 2009 report. WHO, World Malaria Report 2009 in GlobalHealthfacts.org.
Not much time, but not without options A review of the Philippines’ progress on achieving the MDG on environment sustainability � By JONATHAN D. RONQUILLO, RACHAEL O. MORALA AND REAGAN A. GABRIEL Summary Only fi ve years remain before the deadline set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What does this mean? Five years left to change a development path from one that disregards the carrying capacity of the environment to one that recognizes the need to address issues on the environment and natural resources especially in the face of climate change, an urgent national development issue. Five years left to arrest the continued deterioration of our ecosystems and increased pressure on our dwindling biodiversity. Five years left to make concrete steps to ensure environmental sustainability, beyond what MDG 7 prescribes. Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report 2010 119
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Many deserve our th
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CLEEP Comprehensive Livelihood and
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MOA-AD Memorandum of Agreement on A
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS Leon
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FOREWORD By ISAGANI R. SERRANO This
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An urgent MDG message: Inadequate f
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The use of the budget instrument fo
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MDG chances: stability and vulnerab
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may mean a short honeymoon period.
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what we got from Annex I countries
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(Php58.6 Billion) of GDP at current
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Fourth Assessment Report provide a
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Losing the war on poverty The Other
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Table 1. Philippines’ MDG progres
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(NER) and medium on both cohort sur
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incidence of 97.46 percent. The las
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special needs; (c) 228,928 women in
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cultural structures urgently needin
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capacity to confront the dreaded cl
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MDG Goal 1 Targets 1 and 3: On erad
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Table 1. Prevalence of undernutriti
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2007, women’s national unemployme
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in the service and production secto
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een generally positive—increased
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Table 9: Partial Listing of Big Lan
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and promote gender equality in all
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While many see this as an education
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seen in both public and private pre
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and therefore, limited coverage. Th
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Table 7. Education Expenditure as a
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Box 2. Education budget tracking (2
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This paper looks at highly vulnerab
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to education. 5 In practice, debt p
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Table 5. Distribution of Government
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Table 7. Average Daily Basic Pay by
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in the 80’s, according to Sibal,
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eports of female OFW deaths, sexual
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Table 13. Trafficked Migrants Assis
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