Health and nutrition in the Philippines

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Broken Rice Bowl: A food shortage eases, but Manila is still worried
From AsiaWeek, 1 September 1995. The pressure of the international market for food commodities, such as rice, have meant food scarcity and high prices at home for the ordinary consumer.
Drug prices out of whack
By Manolo B. Jara, The Manila Times, 23 October 2000. While multinational drug companies continue to rake it in, as do their counterparts in the oil industry, the Filipinos have to bear the heavy burden of the rising cost of living. The drug industry is calling government measures to alleviate the problem as anti-business and very irresponsible.
Merchants of ‘invisible death’
By Arturo Bariuad, The Straits Times, 8 April 2001. Although abortion is illegal in the Philippines, vendors in Manila sell herbal potions to‘dissolve’ foetuses, seemingly with impunity. Author refers to abortion as kil[ing] thousands of innocent babies.
More Filipinos are getting hungry, says FAO official
By Jose Katigbak, The Philippine Star 18 October 2002. The effort to reduce the number of hungry people by half by 2015, a goal set by the World Food Summit in 1996, has virtually ground to a halt; it will take over a century to reduce world hunger by half. In ASEAN, only Cambodia is worse off than the Philippines.