The biking senator,Pia Cayetano, joins Tour of Hope today to increase awareness of cervical cancer. This year’s Tour of Hope starts at the Makati Park…
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Category: Health
Beginning 15 March 2010, Malaria No More, a non-governmental organization committed to ending malaria deaths in Africa, and Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, are sponsoring the “World Briefing: Telling the Malaria Story” contest for graduate students.
Malaria is a highly preventable and treatable disease – yet each year, malaria infects nearly 300 million people and kills nearly one million, mostly children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa.1 But with broad awareness and the right tools, like nets and medication, malaria deaths and suffering can be greatly reduced.
The goal of this contest is to encourage our future leaders to think about malaria and inform their peers about its serious impact. Participants will also be inspired to learn how organizations like Novartis and Malaria No More are working to reduce malaria-related suffering and have made impressive strides in saving lives.
To spread the word, we’re asking graduate students in the United States, Argentina, Ecuador, Italy, Netherlands, Philippines and Venezuela to develop a 500 word-or-less blog post and 140 character-or-less Twitter entry (“Tweet”) focused on the current malaria burden and ways in which the next generation can make progress in the fight. We’ve attached full entry details, contest guidelines and background.
Update: 43 health workers get SC writ
by Michael Tan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
I know some of you are expecting a column about yesterday’s Inquirer forum at UP with the presidential candidates. I have a lot to share about that event, but I have to postpone that article because I want to write about a very urgent issue, one which has implications for the elections.
I’m referring to the raid conducted last Saturday on a health workers’ training seminar organized by an NGO, the Council for Health and Development (CHD), resulting in the arrest of 42 of the workshop participants. That included two physicians, one nurse and one midwife. All the others were community health workers, most of whom were poor farmers or workers who have been trained as paramedics and health educators. The 42 were brought to Camp Panopio in Tanay, Rizal.
The media reports have mostly featured the military’s claims that the workshop participants were rebels and they were being trained to make bombs. There has been little from the detainees themselves because the mass media have been denied access to the prisoners.
My column today mainly uses information from Dr. Delen de la Paz, vice president of Health Action for Human Rights, and press statements from CHD.
The workshop was being held on private property, a farm/resort owned by Dr. Melecia Velmonte, a retired 71-year-old professor emeritus at the UP College of Medicine who often lets health NGOs use her place for such training activities.
Update: Kin of 43 health workers go to Supreme Court
Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) strongly condemned the illegal raid and abduction of 42 community health workers and doctors who were conducting health skills training in Morong, Rizal Saturday.
Around 300 soldiers and police of the Southern Luzon Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Rizal Philippine National Police and headed by Colonel Aurelio Baladad and Police Superintendent Balonglong, respectively, forcibly entered the farmhouse of Dr. Melecia Velmonte around 6:15 this morning. The training participants were then lined up, frisked, blindfolded, and forcibly brought to Camp Capinpin, headquarters of the 202nd Infantry Brigade, AFP.
Lt. Col. Noel Detoyato, civil-military operations chief of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, said in a text message to GMA News that the 17 men and 26 women are suspected members of the rebel group He said initial investigation showed that the suspected rebels were conducting a training on how to make improvised explosives when they were nabbed by authorities.
There’s no letting up for “Tour of Hope” bikers in informing the public that there is a way to defeat cervical cancer.
If last Wednesday’s launch is to be an indication of this year’s Tour of Hope, participants are in for an exciting, enjoyable, meaningful cycling event once again come March.
Tour of Hope is a cycling event which aims to increase awareness of cervical cancer premised on the belief that being informed is being armed and empowered to fight the disease which is the second most common cancer worldwide (first is breast cancer).
This year’s Tour of Hope which has adopted the theme “Fighting Cervical cancer in Full Circle” will traverse Tarlac, Dagupan, La Union, Dagupan and Baguio on March 20 to 24.
This week has been designated “National Cancer Consciousness Week” in an effort to fight one of the top killer diseases in the country.
Being informed is one of the weapons to fight cancer.
Puerto Galera-based artist Bernadette Wolf sent an article about avoiding cancer.The article says every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.
When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.To improve one’s immune system a healthy lifestyle, which includes healthy diet, is important.
On Friday, the Cervical Cancer Prevention Network or CECAP will once again give recognition to outstanding projects designed to make cervical cancer a thing of the past.
It will be the third year that awards for best practices in cervical cancer prevention will be given. But unlike last year which was just a forum, Friday’s activity will be a whole-day event. There will be a conference of experts and advocates, exhibits and a mobile clinic to be held at the Philippine General Hospital on Taft Avenue.
There are plans to have the mobile clinic inaugurated on Thursday.
CECAP is an alliance of organizations from the private and public sectors committed to eliminate cancer in the country. It is one of the projects of the Cancer Institute Foundation (CIF), a non-profit, non-stock foundation that provides support to the PGH Cancer Institute and its other accredited cancer management network institutions.
Pinadala sa akin ng isang pasahero ng Cebu Pacific ang kopya ng kanyang sulat sa Customer Service ng Cebu Pacific na naglalahad ng kanyang kalbaryo dahil sa kanyang maleta. Humihingi siya ng tulong na matapos na ang kanyang pagdurusa sa Cebu Pacific. Ito ang kanyang sulat:
Tatagalugin ko nalang ang sulat kong ito para naman malinaw at mag kaintindihan tayong lahat!
Ako ay si Christopher Raymund Saavedra Caballero,nakatira sa 1639-F.Maria Orosa st.Malate, Manila cel. 09165768164/09215758816/09222942257.
Naging pasahero ako ng Cebu Pacific last december 29 papuntang cotabato city at bumalik naman ako from Cotabato City to Manila ng Dec.31 2009.
Kaya ako nag- email sa inyo dahil yung maleta ko,may nakalagay na na “ fragile” at may naka dikit pang sticker galing ng Cotabato City na walang damage ang maleta ko.Kaso nang pag dating namin sa airport sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport ay may bitak na yung maleta ko at maraming gasgas na!
The Commission on Human Rights bewailed the discrimination against a “special child” by Cebu Pacific last Dec. 23.
It has been reported last Dec. 23, Maritess Alcantara and her son, John Arvin, boarded a Cebu Pacific flight to Hongkong. They were reportedly asked to deplane because of her son’s “special” condition.
Alcantara, in a broadcast interview related that, prior to departure, she was asked by the crew prior to departure if her son was ill. She responded that he was not, albeit he was a special child with Global Developmental Delay, a condition that impedes the normal development of the child’s faculties. The crew responded that it was company policy that no two special children/persons may board the same flight, and insisted that she disembark together with her son. Based on other news reports, it appeared that there was another passenger on board who had down syndrome.
Talaga namang kahanga-hanga si Cory Aquino sa pagmamahal sa bayan.
Sabi ng isang pari na nag-alay ng misa para sa kanya, tinanong siya kung humihingi siya ng milagro para gumaling siya, sabi ng 76-taong gulang na dating presidente, “Hindi. Hinhingi ko ang milagro para sa bayan.”
Sabi ni Kris noong linggo sa “The Buzz” na hirap na hirap ang nanay niya sa sakit na colon cancer. Stage 4 na ang kanyang cancer sa colon ng ito ay nadiskubre. Kapag stage 4, malala na yan ngunit walang makapagsabi na ikay ay mamatay na. Diyos lamang ang makapag-sabi niyan.
Lahat-lahat tayo ay mamatay. Dumadaan lang tayo dito sa mundo. Magkakaiba lang tayo ng skedyul at ng paraan ng biyahe sa ating hantungan.