PALO, Leyte – The world is celebrating the whole month of November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month. It started in 1995 as Lung Cancer Awareness Day. As the lung cancer community and the lung cancer movement grew, the awareness activities increased and the day matured into Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This year’s celebration carried a theme…

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PALO, Leyte – The Scaling Up Nutrition Strategy 2021-2025 (SUN 3.0) prioritizes country leadership and focuses on supporting systemic change at the country level. It seeks to capture the ambition of SUN countries and guide the work of all actors at all levels- National and sub- national, regional and and global- aligning concerted action behind and…

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PALO, Leyte – The World Diabetes Day falls on Sunday 14th November. This date was picked as it’s also Sir Frederick Banting’s birthday – the medical scientist who discovered insulin along with Charles Best. “Access to Diabetes Care” is the 2021-2023 theme of the celebration. World Diabetes Day started in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation…

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PALO, Leyte – With the impending implementation of Tutok Kainan: Dietary Supplementation Program in selected municipalities of four (4) provinces in Eastern Visayas, NNC 8 officials and Provincial Nutrition Focal Points meet again with DAR 8 personnel in charge of the Agrarian Reform Beneficiary Organizations (ARBOs). The ARBOs are community-based organizations being managed by groups of…

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PALO, Leyte – The DILG in close coordination with DOH and other national government agencies conduct the second leg of (Kasapatan at Ugnayan ng Mamamayan sa Akmang Pagkain at Nutrisyon or KUMAIN. The second leg of KUMAIN Multi-stakeholder Consultation Meeting on the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) for the Visayas cluster. The PMNP, a World Bank…

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TACLOBAN CITY – The municipality of Catarman in Northern Samar and the city of Calbayog in Samar takes their turn to attend training on Nutrition and Health Leadership (NutriHeaL for the First 1000 Days under Municipal Nutrition and Governance Program (MNGP). Both LGUs are supported by KOICA, UNICEF and Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) in close coordination…

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PALO, Leyte – Every second Thursday of every year, World Sight Day is being celebrated. World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on vision impairment, including blindness. This year, World Sight Day will take place on October 14, 2021 with the theme: Love Your Eyes. Globally, at least 1 billion…

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BORONGAN CITY – The Province of Eastern Samar and the City of Borongan takes turn in the conduct of planning workshop in the 2022-2024 Formulation of the Local Nutrition Action Plan and Integrating it in their Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan (PDPFP), Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) and Annual Investment Programs (AIPs) for 2022. NNC 8…

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HILONGOS, Leyte – This town, a pilot municipality of NNC’s Early Childhood Care and Development for the First 1000 Days (ECCD-F1KD) project attended workshop on 2022 Updating of Municipal Nutrition Action Planning (MNAP) and integrating it to the Annual Investment Program for the same year. It was attended by the MNC Core Planning team of the…

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HILONGOS, Leyte – Another special project of the municipality of Hilongos, Leyte is the implementation of Local Nutrition in Early Warning System (LNEWS). Earlier dubbed the Early Warning System for Food and Nutrition Security is a component of the Philippine Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (PFNSS) that is intended to enable LGUs to take timely nutrition…

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