Gender sensitivity seminar held

The VPHCS recently linked with the Passerelles Numériques Philippines, a French non-profit organization created in 2005 that provides information technology (IT) three-year college education scholarship to less fortunate students at the University of San Carlos, and ensures that the graduates get a job after their training with the help of its IT partner companies in Metro Cebu

A gender sensitivity seminar was conducted by VPHCS staff member Dr. Erlinda Posadas on August 21, for more than 80 students in the PN residential house in Talamban, Cebu City.

Another non-government organization also linked up with the VPHCS recently. Members of the World Vision, a Christian development, advocacy and relief organization, Cebu office, met with the management committee on Sept. 10, in order to be oriented regarding our community empowerment work and resource mobilization for sustainability. They came to know about our work through our website. During the visit, mutual experiences were shared regarding community development work.

Dr. Erlinda Posadas with scholars 

of the Passerelles Numériques Philippines 

during a gender sensitivity seminar on August 21, 2012.

HIV/AIDS Project

The Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. (VPHCS) is supporting the Iglesia Filipina Independiente-Visayas Mindanao Regional Office for Development (IFI-VIMROD) in its ongoing project, “HIV/AIDS Prevention and Awareness Program in Urban Poor Communities in Cebu.”

The one-year project which started August 2012 project complements the national and international campaign on HIV-AIDS in terms of providing increased access to information and services on HIV/AIDS prevention, control and treatment in Barangays Hipodromo, Carreta and Sambag II in Cebu City.

The project aims to increase awareness on the causes, modes of transmission, consequences, means of prevention and control of HIV/AIDS through a comprehensive, educational and information campaign in the three communities. 

The project shall also train community health volunteers/peer educators in the three areas to provide basic information and health services (counselling and referrals) on HIV/AIDS. Interested persons in the communities shall then be assisted to avail of voluntary HIV testing and those with the disease to avail of free medical treatment.