United Nations in the Philippines

Business and Health
The Leaders for Health Program (LHP) is a four-year program of the Department of Health, Ateneo Graduate School of Business and Pfizer, Inc., which sends doctors to the country’s poorest communities to take charge and sustain their own health care delivery system. Aside from regular wages, an LHP doctor is given the incentive of earning a master’s degree in community health.

He also assists the municipality design a sustainable system for health. The Philippine Business for Social Progress’ HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Program aims to assist the business sector to respond to HIV/AIDS as one of the emerging business concerns due to its huge impact to human resource. PBSP offers HIV/AIDS orientation sessions to companies, trainings for the development of the Peer Educators and Counselors (PECs) and technical assistance on setting up an HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Program and development of HIV/ AIDS policy.

PBSP’s DOTS in the Workforce Program helps companies set up a TB control and prevention program following the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Strategy). A DOTS Short Course is the World Health Organization (WHO)-prescribed strategy for ensuring proper diagnosis and cure of TB. PBSP offers orientations, trainings and technical assistance in formation of a DOTS Program Management System. PBSP, through its Training and Consulting Unit is piloting a Responsible Parenthood Program in the Workplace and Communities with the following components -- Family Planning (FP) Orientation, Developing a pool of FP Educators in the Workplace, and Education -- Information dissemination through various channels (forums, media, schools, etc.).

Kilusang Ligtas Malaria (KLM) Program: A Model Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. (PSFI) has embarked on a community health program aimed at a sustainable effort to control and finally eradicate malaria. Shell partnered with local communities to formulate a Malaria Control Plan that educates residents on how to eradicate malaria. Local action groups were formed and mobilized to raise awareness regarding the disease; training courses on case identification were held; and equipment and supplies were provided.

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