The International Monetary Fund, the global entity otherwise known as the IMF, recently made an important comment: “There is concrete risk of a world economy persistently mired in sub-par growth, with unacceptably high levels of poverty and unemployment.”

The Philippines is making significant strides in its pursuit of free trade agreements (FTA) with Europe as several major developments are seen happening before the current administration steps down from office next year.

THE PHILIPPINES will remain among the fastest-growing economies in East Asia and the Pacific this year, the World Bank said in its latest flagship report, citing an improvement in what had weighed on the country’s output: government spending.

MANILA, Philippines – Even in the presence of advanced technology to gather evidence of cybercrime, state investigators still find it hard to quickly resolve these cases.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) yesterday expressed concern over the rising cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, saying that this threatens the blood supply.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Asia-Pacific region is facing a “hidden epidemic” of HIV among adolescents with around 220,000 infected teens, according to a new report of the Asia-Pacific Inter-Agency Task Team on Young Key Populations.

The Philippines is experiencing a fast growing HIV epidemic among key populations, particularly men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and freelance sex workers. A programme review of the health sector response to HIV reported that the current response is insufficient to convert the rising epidemic.

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MANILA, Philippines – A 22-year-old worker died and another was injured when 47 panels of window glass fell on them in Binondo, Manila Saturday.

Search for people at risk crucial amid ‘high-level HIV epidemic’ in Cebu IN 2011, the Philippines adopted the “Asean Declaration of Commitment: Getting to Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero Aids-Related Deaths.” This, after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (Asean) first regional report on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) revealed that HIV affected…

The number of Filipinos afflicted with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is expected to increase fivefold and reach over 130,000 in the next seven years, the Department of Health (DOH) warned.

World AIDS Day is a time to celebrate progress and remember that there is still much to be done, says UNDP Administrator Helen Clark MANILA, Philippines – The spotlight is on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) on Tuesday, December 1 as different groups around the world commemorate the World AIDS…

The Philippines is one of the only nine countries in the world with increasing HIV cases, and the number of new cases has been rising alarmingly.

Department of Health (DOH) spokesperson Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy on World AIDS Day revealed that unprotected penetrative sex is still the leading cause of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the Philippines.

Women and girls face a great risk of reproductive health-related illnesses and death due to the lack of protection in conflict zones and in times of disasters. The world needs to take action to ensure they feel safe.

IF the trend in online hiring is to be used as basis, the country is still far from solving its problem on job-skill mismatch, a phenomenon that the government and private sector already noticed and sought to address since the early 2000s.

Paper presented by TUCP President RUBEN D. TORRES at the JILAF INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Tokyo, Japan, December 2015 Read the paper here.

Giving syringes to drug users to stop spread of HIV prickly issue IN EARLY 2014, Dr. Alice Utlang started work at the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap) at the Cebu City Health Department building. A curious sight immediately met Cosap’s new executive director: the long line of people outside the CebuPlus Association…

President Aquino was reported to have lobbied President Obama for US support to our bid for inclusion in the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP and got a polite response. Secretaries Purisima of Finance and Domingo of Trade and Industry both emphasized that our export sector will be disadvantaged if we are left out of the…

MANILA, Philippines – More children and young people are getting infected with human immunodefiency virus (HIV), the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The House committee on housing and urban development has approved a resolution that seeks to extend the government’s regulation of rent for two more years to protect home renters from sudden rental increases.

MANILA, Philippines – Independent government researchers have found the state’s medical infrastructure programs to be plagued with serious flaws and lack of strategic directions and gaps.

16% of male inmates in Cebu City Jail have HIV Joel (not his real name) did not react when a health professional told him he had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids). The injecting drug user just casually returned to his cell at the Cebu…

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced last 25 November that the Country Review of the Philippines with respect to Labor Rights under the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) has been formally closed. The USTR statement said that the decision to close the review is “..based on progress by the Philippine…

The United States has officially closed its country review of the Philippines with respect to labor rights under the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

Medical experts say climate change affects human health in direct ways, by the spread of water – and mosquito-borne diseases for example, and indirectly, such as through hunger.

NEW YORK — The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years, most of them having acquired the disease when they were infants, according to new data released Friday by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).