Photo Exhibit: Campaign for Land Use Planning Now!

The Campaign for Land Use Planning Now! and the Office of Senator Gregorio Honasan II, will be staging a photo exhibit entitled Yuta: Limitadong Kabtangan (Land: A Limited Resource) on January 21-31, 2013 at the Senate of the Philippines.

National Autism Consciousness Week

Logo from Autism Society of the Philippines

17^th National AUTISM Consciousness

Week Celebration

Enero 20 to 27, 2013

Theme: “Autismo Alamin: Pagtanggap at Pag-Unawa Palaganapin”

ISA sa bawat 88 na bata ang may autismo sa USA (Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network in April 2012) at marami pa ang magkakaroon ng autism sa darating na mga taon. Ang Autismo ang siyang pinakamabilis dumami na developmental disability sa mundo.

Pahayag mula sa Kagawaran ng Agham at Teknolohiya

Boatmen at Danajon Reef. Photo by Dennis Estopace.

Abot-kayang DOST rescue boat

Los Baños, Laguna – Mas matibay, abot-kaya at gawang Filipino na DOST rescue boat ang ipinakikilala ng Department of Science and Technology Regional Office IVA (DOST IV-A) na alternatibo sa mga imported at gawa sa goma na rescue boat.

FOI Youth Initiative Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18 January 2013

With 9 session days left, youth groups strengthen call for FOI passage

With only nine days left remaining for the House of Representatives to conduct its sessions, youth groups reiterated their call for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill.

Press Release on Hunger by the United Nations

1 in 8 persons worldwide go to bed hungry; hunger, one of world's top 10 health risks; and other recent data on hunger from the World Food Programme

TOP 10 FACTS ABOUT HUNGER

1. Approximately 870  million people in the world do not eat enough to be healthy. That means that one in every eight  people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night. (Source: FAO, 2012)

2. Most of the progress against hunger  was achieved before 2007/08. Since then, global progress in reducing hunger has slowed and levelled off.  (Source: FAO,  2012)

3. Hunger is number one on the list of the world’s top 10 health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. (Source: UNAIDS, 2010; WHO, 2011).

4. A third of all deaths in children under the age of five in developing countries are linked to undernutrition. (Source: IGME, 2011) 

Read more: http://www.unicmanila.org/main/index.php?pg=news&id=917

Photo Release from PBSP

GENERIKA RESPONDS TO PBSP’S CALL FOR SUPPORT

FOR THE VICTIMS OF TYPHOON PABLO

DOST Press Release

Philippine National Institute on Aging Executive Director Dr. Patricio

F. Reyes speaks during the DOST-NAST forum on "Quality Aging."

(Photo courtesy of DOST-STII.)

National Institute on Aging as solution to “graying Ph” pushed in DOST Forum

The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), an advisory body of the Department of Science  and Technology,  recently conducted a Science Information Forum  on “Quality Aging” in a bid to help address health problems associated with the graying of the global population, including that of the Philippines.