2nd Integrated FIMO
Meeting '08

November 19-21, 2008
East Asia Royale Hotel
General Santos City

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III (4th from  left) leads the  Mass Drug Administration (MDA) of Diethyl Carbamazine & Albendazole  during the Kick-Off Ceremony of Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program held in Lambunao , Iloilo City. The said MDA, which started last October 13, was launched at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol during the observance of the Department of Health’s Garantisadong Pambata Week. Also in photo are Dr. Ariel I. Valencia, OIC  Director CHD-WV,  DOH-NCDPC Dir. Yolanda Oliveros and   Lambunao, Iloilo Mayor Reynor Gonzalez.

Food fortification is the addition of one or more essential nutrients to food whether or not it is normally contained in the food, for the purpose of preventing a demonstrated deficiency  with one or more nutrients in the population or specific population groups.

Executive Order 382 mandates that every November 7 of each year will be observed as the Food Fortification Day.  Mandatory fortification of staples like rice with iron, flour with vitamin A and iron  and sugar and cooking oil with vitamin A as embodied in the Food Fortification Law of 2000 or RA 8976 also officially takes effect on the 7th of November, 2004.

The Department of Health took the lead in establishing the National AIDS Prevention and Control Program in 1998 in response to the emerging threat of the global AIDS pandemic. In 1994, DOH integrated its STI program with the NAPC, which had been known as National AIDS STI Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP).

NASPCP is under the Infectious Disease Office of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC). A Program Coordinator is designated, supervised by the Directors of IDO (Director III) and NCDPC (Director IV).

NANGUNGUNA SA LAHAT... NAGLILINGKOD NG TAPAT

DOH through the years

2006 - The Presidential Anti-Graft Commission recognized and awarded the DOH as the number one government agency in fighting corruption. DOH also topped in the Pulse Asia 3rd Quarter Survey as the number one government agency in terms of overall performance.