WomanHealth Philippines

11/03/2026

RHAN GA

03/03/2026

Human Rights Defenders, Celebrates Women's Month

29/11/2025

11/11/2025

PAGGUNITA SA ALAALA NI MERCY: Block Screening ng "LAKAMBINI GREGORIA DE JESUS" Para sa mga Kababaihan sa Komunidad

17/10/2025

03/10/2025

LOOK: Healthcare advocates and professionals, including the Sin Tax Coalition, held a press conference at the Commission on Human Rights on Friday, forwarding calls to abolish patronage-driven medical assistance and recover the missing funds from sin tax collections to fund PhilHealth.

The Medical Assistance for Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients or MAIFIP program, expanded in 2019, was meant to assist families in Department of Health-run public hospitals, as well as an increasing list of private hospitals. After the passage of the 2019 Universal Healthcare Act, the MAIFIP program was expanded to complement PhilHealth, covering expenses not included in the insurance's inclusions.

But the growing list of private hospitals and the subsequent allocation of public funds is "the new face of pork barrel," according to healthcare groups. Politicians and elite businessmen, often with links to high-end hospital groups, may prioritize the inequitable disbursement of public funds toward those hospitals, according to Cielo Magno, former finance undersecretary.

Currently, the MAIFIP program has a P51-billion budget, almost toe-to-toe with PhilHealth's allotted P53-billion budget. The funds allocated from sin tax collections to PhilHealth also face a discrepancy. The nationwide insurance program should have received a P69.78-billion budget, according to Sen. Pia Cayetano in the DOH budget hearings held Oct. 1.

Only 12% of the MAIFIP funds reach the poorest 20% of benefactors under the program, while a staggering 43% of the funds go to the richest 20%, most of whom are checked in at high-end private hospitals, according to UP College of Medicine professor emeritus Antonio Dans.

This continued patronization of healthcare, alongside the shrinking reach of the Universal Healthcare Act, is digging PhilHealth's grave, the groups added.

"Ang mga serbisyong ito ay karapatan ng taumbayan. Hindi dapat ito limos o regalo." said Maria Raquiza, assistant professor for public administration.

03/09/2025

People’s Plea for the Supreme Court’s Resolution of the PhP 89.9 Billion PhilHealth Fund Transfer Case

10/06/2025

DEFEND UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!

WomanHealth Philippines, together with the advocates and communities we work with, welcomes the Bicameral Conference Committee’s cancellation of the meeting on the amendments to the Universal Health Care (UHC) or Republic Act 11223.

We appeal to Congress to defer the passage of the law, and protect the integrity of UHC that will be most beneficial and equitable to all Filipinos, ensuring that “kahit sino ka man, kahit nasaan ka man, kailan pa man, may de kalidad na serbisyong pangkalusugan para sa lahat tungo sa buhay na may dignidad!”

We also demand that the government establish an open and transparent platform for citizens' participation in the assessment of the implementation of UHC.

21/03/2025

CALL TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH
It's a beautiful day!
I am Prescilla Tulipat, PhD student of Anthropology, UP Diliman. I'm conducting a study on "Relations of Abortion Stigma and Development in Life: Narrative of Filipino Women".
It aims to alleviate the relationship of abortion stigma in improving the lives of Filipino women who have undergone abortion.
If you are:
-female 28 years old and above
-your abortion took place ten years more
-procedure can be medical, medication or massage
-the reason can be personal, financial, or medical and
-currently living in an urban or rural area.
Please complete the link below to be a participant.
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Your participation would be greatly appreciated!