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Partners In Leprosy Action (PILA) was piloted in 2006 under the Philippine Leprosy Mission, a NGO where I devote my extension work as UP faculty.
Category Archives: News and Activities
News and Activities 2019
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By: Mariejo S. Ramos – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:50 AM January 31, 2020 Poverty, lack of awareness and climate change are the main factors behind the spread of neglected tropical diseases (NTD) in impoverished communities, a group of dermatologists on Wednesday told a forum organized by the Philippine Leprosy Mission for World NTD Day. Among the ailments discussed […]
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posted January 30, 2020 at 11:00 pm byRio N. Araja A physician from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital on Thursday urged the Department of Labor and Employment as well as local governments to consider the employment of those who have already been treated and completely cured of leprosy. At the World Neglected Tropical Disease forum […]
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By: Cathy Cañares Yamsuan – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:48 AM January 30, 2020 A tropical skin disease thought to have been eradicated, or at least controlled, by medical experts in the Philippines in the 1970s continues to lurk in the remotest villages in Mindanao, endangering very young children who are most susceptible to communicable ailments. The World Health […]
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By: Cathy Cañares Yamsuan – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / January 26, 2020 In the late 1990s, “Normie,” then 27 and a mother of two toddlers, noticed a whitish patch growing near her right elbow. She recalled thinking that she had contracted a skin ailment and proceeded to treat it with all kinds of medicines, including very expensive ones: “Akala […]
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Partners in Leprosy Action: A community skin health approach to serve the Filipino
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Partners In Leprosy Action (PILA) was piloted in 2006 under the Philippine Leprosy Mission, a NGO where I devote my extension work as UP faculty.
News and Activities
Partners In Leprosy Action receives the UP Gawad Pangulo Award for Excellence in Public Service
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Partners in Leprosy Action (PILA) becomes one of five projects deemed worthy to be awarded the 3rd Gawad Pangulo Award for Excellence
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Philippine Leprosy Mission Wins at the 2017 Galderma SKINPACT Awards – Asia Pacific
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The 2017 Galderma SKINPACT Award for Community Leadership in Dermatology (Community Vote) was given to the Philippine Leprosy Mission (PLM) for the project entitled “Partners in Leprosy Action (PILA): A community skin health strategy as a combined approach to detecting skin- related Neglected Tropical Diseases”. Among 105 entries from the Asia- Pacific region, this project […]