The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has announced its participation in the Department of Health's Measles-Rubella and Polio Supplementary Immunization campaign that started on Monday, May 1, and will last until May 31. Courtesy of Philippine Red Cross The program, called "Chikiting Ligtas," was designed...
LUCENA CITY – The SM City here is one of the sites for the Chikiting Ligtas Measles-Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) which will be conducted the whole month of May. The immunization program is in cooperation with Healthy Pilipinas, United Nations...
The Department of Health (DOH) urged parents to let their children get immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, rubella, and polio as the agency launched a supplemental immunization campaign on Thursday, April 27. The vaccination campaign called “Chikiting Ligtas 2023: Join...
The Department of Health (DOH) will launch next month a nationwide supplemental immunization campaign against measles, rubella, and polio in a bid to prevent possible outbreak of such diseases this year. The DOH is targeting to immunize 11 million children against measles, rubella, and polio...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) is eyeing to immunize more than 100,000 children here against polio, measles, and rubella. The CHO and the Department of Health (DOH) have encouraged the people to prioritize the immunization of their children from vaccine preventable diseases through...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A month-long Measles-Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine (MR-OPV) Supplemental Immunization Activity will be conducted starting May 1 here to improve the immunization rate after many eligible children missed their routine inoculation because of the pandemic. Data of routine...
The Department of Health (DOH) said it is targeting to administer measles vaccines to around 11.1 million children aged zero to 59 months old. DOH Undersecretary and Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that they are going to conduct measles supplemental immunization activities by May....
DOH A total of 589 measles cases were recorded across the country in 2022, data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed. This figure posted a 186 percent increase as compared to the year 2021 where only 206 cases were logged, the DOH report showed. Calabarzon registered the most number of...
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo -- Africa is facing an explosion of preventable diseases due to delays in vaccinating children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, with measles cases jumping 400 percent. Twenty African countries reported measles outbreaks in the first quarter of this year, eight...
(RITM) The seven subnational laboratories of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) have the capacity to test vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), an official of the institute said on Wednesday, Jan. 26. “Tungkol po doon sa sub-national laboratories natin, ito po ay para sa apat na...
The Department of Health (DOH) released a video featuring Rep. Angelina "Helen" D.L. Tan, MD. reminding and encouraging parents to have their kids vaccinated to be safe from measles, rubella and polio. The representative of Quezon City’s 4th district said that in the middle of COVID 19 pandemic,...
