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Department of Health. The COVID-19 vaccination program in the Philippines was a mass immunization campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the pandemic in the country. The vaccination program was initiated by the Duterte ...
Website. doh.gov.ph. The Department of Health (DOH; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care, the regulation of all health services and products.
The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in the Philippines began in 1976 [1] through Presidential Decree No. 996 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. [2] And, in 1986, made a response to the Universal Child Immunization goal. The four major strategies include: [3] sustaining high routine Full Immunized Child (FIC) coverage of at least 90% ...
The Philippines has secured 25 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, with the first 50,000 expected to arrive in February, a government official said on Monday.
With nearly 2.8 million COVID-19 cases and almost 42,000 deaths, the Philippines has the second-highest infections and fatalities in Southeast Asia. Philippines to start vaccine mixing trials by ...
Dengvaxia controversy. The Dengvaxia controversy (locally [dɛŋˈvakʃa]) occurred in the Philippines when the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia was found to increase the risk of disease severity for some people who had received it. [1][2] A vaccination program run by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) administered Sanofi Pasteur 's Dengvaxia to ...
The RITM is tasked by the Philippine Department of Health and the Philippine Government to supervise, plan, and successfully implement research programs to prevent and to control prevailing infectious and tropical diseases in the Philippines. This includes research involving the advancement of vaccines and medications used by medical ...
During the first months of the pandemic in the country, several government officials were reported to have been tested for COVID-19 without complying with the initial triage algorithm used by the Department of Health (DOH), [78] [79] [80] which restricted asymptomatic individuals from being tested. Some family and staff members were also ...