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By Khriscielle Yalao The Quezon City Council has passed an ordinance seeking to strengthen the city’s mechanisms in the delivery of treatment and care services to People Living with HIV (PLHIV). Authored by Councilor Lena Marie Juico, the ordinance was passed on World Aids Day (Dec. 1) as part of
Medilines Distributors Inc., a distributor of top medical equipment in the country, said it will continue to focus on resilient products that have allowed the company to grow. “Crafting our product portfolio is at the heart of Medilines’ strategy that has brought us sustainable growth over the years,” Medilines chairman…
From dead pigs in the Shanghai river to toxic smog in major cities, 2013 was a year of dramatic environmental stories in China. We asked some of our contributors for their predictions on how these and other stories are likely to develop in the coming yearLi Bingqin, Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy2013 saw Chinese cities badly hit by smog. The public
Credit: University of Notre Dame For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. Their fifth assessment report led to the Paris Agreement in 2015 and, shortly after, a special report on the danger of global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Nobel Prize-winning team stressed that mitigating global warming "would make it markedly easier to achieve many aspects of sustainable development, with greater potential to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities." In a first-of-...
Study finds strong interconnection between toxic pollution and climate risks to human health For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. Their fifth assessment report led to the Paris Agreement in 2015 and, shortly after, a special report on the danger of global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Nobel Prize-winning team stressed that mitigating global warming "would make it markedly easier to achieve many aspects of sustainable development, with greater potential t...