Thirty-six Nutrition Stakeholders from Eastern Visayas region actively involved in the yearly conduct of Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation (MELLPI) on nutrition programs and services gathered for a two-day roll-out training on the updated monitoring and evaluation protocol on nutrition dubbed “MELLPI Pro” on Mach 6-7, 2019 at the Commission on Audit (COA) Training Center, Palo, Leyte.

he first built human milk bank in the Visayas was inaugurated on February 28, 2019, at the Reproductive Health and Neonatal Center, Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC), Tacloban City.

The Philippines has been reported to be one of the fastest growing worldwide in terms of rate of increase in infections of HIV/AIDS with a reported 56,275 cumulative cases since 1984 by the Department of Health AIDS Registry. The same data shows, however, that the Philippines is also a low-HIV-prevalence country, with less than 0.1 percent of the adult population estimated to be HIV-positive.

Last 27th of February 2019, the Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium (EVHRDC) conducted a turn-over of financial grant for Ms. Inish Cris Mesias at the Office of the Vice-President for Instructions in VSU Main Campus, Baybay, Leyte cum Monitoring of RRF-funded Project of Dr. Lilibeth Miralles in VSU Alangalang Campus.