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SOCIAL SUPPORT SERVICE. Some 100 child laborers in the province of Masbate enjoy participating in various activities during the community-based intervention program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Bicol in the second week of November 2021. The activities were held under 'Project Angel Tree', a component project of DOLE under its Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program. (Photo courtesy of DOLE-Bicol) LEGAZPI CITY - At least 100 child laborers in the province of Mas...

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections have long been an important public health concern in the Philippines. In this review, we describe the current status of STH infections there and highlight the control efforts undertaken to reduce STH burden. A nationwide STH mass drug administration (MDA) programme was started in 2006 but the overall STH prevalence remains stubbornly high across the Philippines, ranging from 24.9% to 97.4%. The continued increase in the prevalence may have been due to t...

Published April 26, 2021, 3:25 PM A malaria-free Philippines by 2030. The Department of Health said this is the government’s target in the National Malaria Control and Elimination Program (NMCEP). DOH/MB “The COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted the delivery of services under our malaria elimination program, but this will not deter us from our vision of a malaria-free country,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a statement on Monday, April 26. Based on the World Health Organiza...

SunStar + February 15, 2021 CLARK FREEPORT -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has renewed its bid to free more than half a million children who are into child labor. Lawyer Ma. Karina Trayvilla, director of the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, said that while DOLE has yet to receive latest official data on the number of young Filipinos engaged in child labor, the government is nonetheless bent on removing about 630,000 of them from such condition by 2022. "We ...

The 213 beneficiaries each received P21,000 as livelihood starter kits. DOLE Region 7 allocated a budget of P4.7 million for the program which is meant to reduce child labor in the city. Parents of the profiled child laborers in Carcar are now into various livelihood projects such as swine fattening, fishing materials trading, sewing services, goat raising, general merchandising, “bigasan” (rice store), cattle fattening, and agricultural and veterinary supply trading. “In the middle of Ja...

MANILA, Feb. 14 -- The labor department renewed its bid to free more than half a million children who are into child labor and its worst forms amid reports that cases of child labor spiked despite the restrictions due to the pandemic. Atty. Ma. Karina Trayvilla, director of the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, said that while DOLE has yet to receive latest official data on the number of young Filipinos engaged in child labor, the government is nonetheless bent on removing about 630,00...