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01 October 2024

PhilHealth, UNICEF launch benefit package to address severe malnutrition in children

MANILA, 1 October 2024 – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund or UNICEF, has launched the first-ever Severe Acute Malnutrition Outpatient Therapeutic Care Benefit Package in the Philippines and globally. This groundbreaking initiative puts l...

12 September 2024

It’s Time to Talk More About What Our Children Eat

MANILA, 12 SEPT. 2024 –The options available in the market influencing what our children eat during their early years have a lasting impact on their health, growth, and development. In the Philippines, where childhood obesity is a growing concern and one in three children faces the triple burden of malnutrition—un...

04 September 2024

Transforming Nutrition in the Philippines

The Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) is a Government of the Philippines initiative, with financing from the World Bank, to increase delivery of nutrition and health services in 275 municipalities across 13 regions in the country, including BARMM. Via a tripartite partnership between the Departmen...

50th Nutrition Month needs everyone in society to unite behind the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN)

KORONADAL CITY, 1 July 2024 – As the nation marks the 50th year of National Nutrition Month, it has never been more urgent for everyone in society to get behind the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2023-2028 to transform children’s nutrition, combat stunting, and reverse the tide of childhood overwei...

Addressing nutrition vulnerability in infants under six months in the Philippines

In the Philippines, there is a significant prevalence of undernutrition among infants under six months, primarily due to sub-optimal breastfeeding practices, infectious causes, congenital conditions, and low birth weight. Additionally, a quarter of pregnant women are underweight, and there is a concerning incidenc...

Employers need to do more to support breastfeeding women in the workplace – UNICEF, ILO

Manila, 1 August 2023 — In commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week on 1-7 August, the UN agencies for children and labour rights, UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO), called on employers in the Philippines to do more to support breastfeeding women. In the Philippines, a 2019 study by the Natio...

07 December 2022

KOICA-UNICEF partnership key in improving children’s health amid pandemic and typhoons

Manila, 7 December 2022 – From 2018 to 2022, the Republic of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and UNICEF implemented the partnership programme “Integrated Nutrition and Health Actions for the First 1,000 Days” (‘F1KD’ programme), with a focus on the three provinces of Samar, Northern Samar, and Zamboanga del Norte (…

Breastfeeding Your Baby in the First 1,000 Days

Breastfeeding gives children the best start in life — walang duda! Ang gatas ng isang ina ang best source ng nutriyson at sustansya na kailangan ng isang sanggol mula pagkapanganak hanggang siya ay mag-two years old, upang maging malakas at maligaya. Learn more kung paano ang wastong pagkain at pagpasuso kay baby: First 6 months 6-12 months 1-2…, First 6 months, Breastmilk lamang ang kailangan ni baby sa unang anim na buwan niya. Sapat ang sustan...

How breastfeeding saved this mother and child after Typhoon Odette

When Gilla Capucanan got pregnant, she made a vow. “I was separated from my own mother as an infant. I promised my child’s life would be different. I would be there for her no matter what,” remarks Gilla. The first-time mother faced her first test when Typhoon Odette ravaged their town of San Jose in Dinagat Isl...

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 1 August 2022 – As global crises continue to threaten the health and nutrition of millions of babies and children, the vital importance of breastfeeding as the best possible start in life is more critical than ever. “This World Breastfeeding Week, under its theme Step up for breastfeeding: Educate and Support , UNICEF and WHO are…

Maternal nutrition and health get a boost in hard-to-reach Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte

Anccita Badia-on, 42, proudly shows off 3-month-old Robin as she joins UNICEF for a chat at the barangay (village) health station in Dapaon, Sindangan Municipality. “He almost never cries,” she says. “He’s a well-behaved baby.” Little Robin was born in a breech position which resulted in prolonged labour of two d...

Improving maternal nutrition and health in the poorest municipality of Zamboanga del Norte

It was a typical scorching summer day in Barangay Muñoz when UNICEF reached the barangay (village) health station to meet the pregnant women participating in the First 1,000 Days (F1KD) programme. The first agenda of the day has several mothers forming a beeline for their monthly prenatal care where they undergo...