Department of Health

National Essential Diagnostics List development as an opportunity to expand frontline diagnostic testing at barangay health stations in the Philippines

The Philippines’ Universal Health Care Act places primary care at its center, yet the barangay health station (BHS), the facility closest to most community members, generally lacks diagnostic capacity. As the Philippines develops a National Essential Diagnostics List, this presen...

Quantifying ASF Outbreak Dynamics in the Philippines (2019–2023) Using Joinpoint Regression and the Estimated Dissemination Ratio

African swine fever (ASF) remains a major constraint on swine production in the Philippines, but interpretation of its national trajectory is complicated by changes in surveillance effort and regional heterogeneity. We analyzed domestic-pig surveillance records from August 2019 t...