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Read more about the article Breastfeeding advocacy through support groups in Davao pushed
BREASTFEEDING ADVOCACY. Mothers from different areas in Davao region join the Breastfeeding Peer Counselors Training organized by the Breastfeeding Pinays from May 20 to May 21, 2017 at the Bahay ni Tuding, San Pedro Street in Davao City. Joining them in a posterity photo are (standing row from L-R) Lactation massage expert Rechilda Talle (6th), Velvet Escario Roxas, program director and founding administrator of BFP (8th), Noelle Polack, BFP administrator and organizer of the Davao-leg training (10th) and seated on the floor is Atty. Abie Co Floreza, president of the BFP. (Photo by Breastfeeding Pinays)

Breastfeeding advocacy through support groups in Davao pushed

A recent nationwide survey shows that only 34 percent of Filipino infants younger than six months are exclusively breastfed and an alarming 36 percent were fed in infant formula, according to a World Health Organization report that assessed breastfeeding in the country.

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Read more about the article Research group tells Duterte admin of clearer and stronger basis to reject aid from US

Research group tells Duterte admin of clearer and stronger basis to reject aid from US

Research group IBON, in a recent statement, welcomed the recent move by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte in rejecting the official development aid from the European Union.

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Read more about the article Church group bats for free HIV screening for public
Various organization?s? commemorate the Internat?i? onal AIDS Candlelight Memorial for those who die ?of the disease and those who are now ?carrying it . ?The ?memorial activity is held at the People's ?P? ark? in Davao City? on Friday afternoon. (Ace R Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Church group bats for free HIV screening for public

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines calls for the government to expand a fast, free and voluntary screening of the Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome for the general public.

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Read more about the article Solon hits Ombud’s charges vs DAR chief
Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano (left) comes back to Tagum City on Friday, April 21, 2017 to supervise the scheduled installation of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Barangay San Isidro. However, the installation did not push through after the guards inside the plantation refused to receive DAR's Writ of Installation. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Solon hits Ombud’s charges vs DAR chief

Anakpawis Representative Ariel Casilao downplayed the graft complaint filed against Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael "Ka Paeng" Mariano, calling it a desperate move after the successful reinstallation of agrarian reform beneficiaries in the land area caught in tug of war between farmers and the Lapanday Foods Corporation.

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