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Young Health Programme Launches in the Philippines

AstraZeneca Philippines and the Iloilo Provincial Government announce the launch of the Young Health Programme in the Philippines with the PHAPCares Foundation. Supported by the Department of Education Iloilo Schools Divisionand the Department of Health Regional Office VI, the programme is a global community investment initiative from AstraZeneca, focusing on empowering young people to help prevent the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs): cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and respiratory disease.  The Iloilo Provincial Government, AstraZeneca Philippines, and PHAPCares Foundation are all pitching in to implement the Healthy Youth, Healthy Future Project The Philippine iteration of the Young Health Programme (YHP), which is dubbed as Healthy Youth, Healthy Future, aims to impact 30,000 adolescents aged 10 to 19 in Iloilo within two years. It seeks to address health and social issues, specifically NCD awareness, mental wellness, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR