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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, 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.
PBSP’s 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 Educatorsm 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 strategy. DOTS or Directly Observed Treatment, 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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