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How it all startedIn just over five years, HCWH-Asia has had significant impact on the health system in the Philippines.  It has worked on the passing of the Department of Health (DOH) Administrative Order 21 on the gradual phase-out of all mercury containing devices in all Philippine hospitals by 2010 making the Philippines the 1st Southeast Asian and the 1st developing country to have a national legislation on mercury phase-out in hospitals. HCWH-Asia ikewise did the 1st documentation of a national government mass immunization project which showed that disposal of waste is possible without incineration—all this coming from the 1st country in the world to ban the use of incinerators! The organization’s Health Care Waste Assessment Project (HWAP) in Metro Manila, province of Northern Samar and Baguio City, on the other hand, documented waste management practices of different hospitals that are serving as model...

Informe anual de gestión de la Red Global de Hospitales Verdes y Saludables.

Llamado a la acción durante el cierre del 14° Congreso Mundial de Salud Pública (Kolkata, India).

The Healthy Energy Initiative welcomed the Call to Action released at the World Congress on Public…

We write to you today in conjunction with the visit of French President Francois Hollande to the…

Conozca cómo las toxinas afectan el coeficiente intelectual y el desarrollo cerebral de niños y…

Written by Jorge Emmanuel, this technical report explains the situation on the ground in Liberia…

The world's worst Ebola outbreak, finally being brought under control in West Africa, has posed huge…

Plymouth, UK | Accompanied by Ruth Stringer, HCWH International Science and Policy Coordinator…

The AwardeesThe Do No Harm Award will be given to hospitals, health care workers, institutions and communities whose story of environmental activism and accomplishment shares that of HCWH-AP’s goal of transforming the health care sector so that it is ecologically sustainable and safer to public health and environment.