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Third of the World Infected with Hepatitis: WHO

Third of the World Infected with Hepatitis: WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) - Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with one of the viruses that causes the liver disease hepatitis, which kills about a million victims annually, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. And although most of those carrying h...

PH Azkals Hope for a Better Result vs. Kuwait in Game 2

PH Azkals Hope for a Better Result vs. Kuwait in Game 2

PHILIPPINE Azkals manager Dan Palami yesterday expressed confidence that they can produce a better result than the 0-3 defeat they absorbed to Kuwait in the home leg of their second round World Cup Qualifying at the Rizal Memorial Stadium on Thursday.

State of the Nation: Let Us End Culture of Negativism

State of the Nation: Let Us End Culture of Negativism

(English translation of the speech delivered before the Joint Session of Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Philippines at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City, on July 25, 2011.)   Senate President Juan Ponce En...

Sea Salt vs. Table Salt

Sea Salt vs. Table Salt

MANY households are not very particular about the type of salts to use for cooking except the iodized which have certain limits. Basically, both sea salt and table salt have the same basic nutritional value. The only difference is their taste, texture and processing.  

PH Has Highest Income Inequality in SEA

PH Has Highest Income Inequality in SEA

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III needs to pursue development reforms and protect the  economic welfare of the people from the vested interests of a few, in order to  address the problem of income inequality in the Philippines, which is already  the highest among major Southeast Asian ...

Drug Firm Boosts DOH Efforts to Cut Maternal Mortality Rate

Drug Firm Boosts DOH Efforts to Cut Maternal Mortality Rate

Efforts of the Department of Health (DOH) to achieve Millennium Development Goal-5 (MDG-5) on reducing maternal mortality rate (MMR) by 2015 got a much-needed boost from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Parke Davis which will construct lying-in facilities across the country.  

New WHO Strategies on HIV Pushed

New WHO Strategies on HIV Pushed

A party-list congressman has urged the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) to quickly adopt here the new strategies being pushed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce the spread of HIV and save the lives of men who have sex with men.  

Administration Seeks P1.8-Trillion Budget for 2012

Administration Seeks P1.8-Trillion Budget for 2012

President Aquino will most likely seek a 2012 national budget that is roughly P300 billion more than this year’s P1.54-trillion spending program.  

Thanks to P-Noy, Sirens Literally Gone

Thanks to P-Noy, Sirens Literally Gone

A YEAR after President Aquino declared a war on its unauthorized use, sirens literally are gone in the country except for very few hard-headed motorists who think they can escape the law, Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group director Chief Supt. Leonardo A. Espina said yesterday. ...

President Aquino’s Speech on the First Year of His Administration

President Aquino’s Speech on the First Year of His Administration

Talumpati ng Kagalang-galang Benigno S. Aquino III Pangulo ng Pilipinas Sa anibersayo ng kanyang panunumpa bilang pangulo [Inihayag sa PhilSports Arena, Pasig City noong ika-30 ng Hunyo 2011]  

Businessmen Give Noy Passing Mark

Businessmen Give Noy Passing Mark

Businessmen disclosed yesterday that they are giving President Aquino a “barely passing mark” for his first year in office because although the new administration started on the right foot with the anti-wang-wang (siren) campaign, several administration officials got involved in cont...

Nuclear Tourism Launched in Bataan

Nuclear Tourism Launched in Bataan

In a fresh but ambiguous take on ecotourism, travellers in the Philippines can visit a remote turtle sanctuary and then venture into the heart of a nearby nuclear power plant.  

Aquino Launches National Renewable Energy Program

Aquino Launches National Renewable Energy Program

The Philippines moves towards attaining energy self-sufficiency with the formal launching of the National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) at the Rizal Ballroom of the Makati Shangri-la Hotel on Tuesday.  

It’s West Philippine Sea

It’s West Philippine Sea

The Aquino government has apparently made it settled doctrine to use “West Philippine Sea” to refer to the waters west of the country where the Philippines has overlapping territorial claims with five other nations, instead of the all-embracing tag of “South China Sea.

More Than 600 Sickened by Lead Poisoning in China

More Than 600 Sickened by Lead Poisoning in China

BEIJING – A state news agency says more than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning.

Nation Celebrates 113th Independence Day

Nation Celebrates 113th Independence Day

On June 12, 1898, General Emilio F. Aguinaldo, in the presence of a huge crowd, proclaimed the independence of the Philippines at Cavite el Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite. For the first time, the Philippine National Flag was hoisted in public and the Act of the Declaration of Independence was read...

Teamwork In Philippine Nation-Building

Teamwork In Philippine Nation-Building

“We must win our freedom by deserving it — exalting reason and dignity of the individual — loving what is just — what is good — what is great — even to the point of dying for it.” — Dr. Jose Rizal  

P-Noy to Submit Proposed 2012 Budget after SONA

P-Noy to Submit Proposed 2012 Budget after SONA

President Aquino intends to submit his proposed national budget for 2012 after delivering his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) before Congress on July 25.  

Philippine Flag Symbolizes Freedom and Unity

Philippine Flag Symbolizes Freedom and Unity

A day before our country celebrates its independence, Filipinos once again commemorate the events that led to our long-sought freedom 113 years ago beginning with the hoisting of our national flag.      

DTI to Conduct Forum on Livelihood Initiatives to Boost Job Generation in the Countryside

DTI to Conduct Forum on Livelihood Initiatives to Boost Job Generation in the Countryside

The regional office of the Department of Trade and Industry, in its bid to boost job generation in the countryside, will conduct a Forum on BLIVE or the Barangay Livelihood Initiatives and Entrepreneurial Ventures program on June 22-24 this year.  

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Third of the World Infected with Hepatitis: WHO
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

GENEVA (Reuters) - Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with one of the viruses that causes the liver disease hepatitis, which kills about a million victims annually, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. And although most of those carrying hepatitis do not know they have it, they can unknowingly transmit it to others and at any time in their lives it can develop to kill or disable them, the United Nations agency warned.

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