CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 developed a comprehensive Food Fortification Plan, in consultation with the food industries. To be fortified with Vitamin A, Iron and Iodine were: wheat flour, cooking oil, salt, processed foods carrying the “Sangkap Pinoy” seal (hotdogs, fruit juice, noodles, chips, margarine, sardines), and baby foods. The Bureau of Food and Drugs monitors the compliance of the food manufacturers. 463. Efforts were also made to enforce the Milk Code through the training of health workers on breastfeeding counseling, skills training in Milk Code monitoring, and promotion of breastfeeding in hospitals through the mother-and-baby-friendly hospital initiative. 464. The Expanded Program on Immunization has issued policies and guidelines on immunization of all children 0-11 months old against seven diseases. By supplying vaccines supply to local government units and training health workers, the program reached 74 percent of female and male target groups in 1998. The Knock-out Polio Campaign, aimed to immunize all children aged 0-59 months to eradicate polio by 2000, reached 97 percent of its target in 1996 and 1997. In 2000, the World Health Organization declared the country polio-free. To be launched in February 2004, the Philippine Measles Elimination Campaign aims to immunize all children 9 months to 15 years old and eliminate measles by reaching 98.4 percent of its target group in schools by 2008. Program strategies include regular health center-based immunization and door-to-door immunization campaign. 465. The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank support an inter-agency project of the social welfare and development department entitled “Early Childhood Development Project (ECDP).” Launched in 1999, ECDP is a six-year project that seeks to promote child and family focused services to enhance the quality and coverage of essential health, nutrition, psychosocial development and early education services for 0-6 year old children. It is being implemented in three regions, supplementing and enhancing the resources of local government units involved in the project. The project provides, among others, equipment for the expanded program on immunization, training on integrated management of childhood illness, provision of micronutrients (Vitamin A and Iron), and food fortification. Programs on HIV/AIDS and STD 466. As noted in paragraph 444d, above, RA 8504 provides the legal mandate for the government’s HIV/ AIDS campaign. It also protects the rights of girls (and boys) infected, suspected or to be infected with HIV/AIDS. The Implementing Rules and Regulations are being prepared by the Philippine National AIDS Council for full implementation, but the “Information and Guidelines for Management of STDs in Children” has already been disseminated for implementation at all levels of the health care delivery system to ensure that girl-victims of sexual abuse get appropriate care for reproductive tract infections. The health department maintains an AIDS hotline and provides support services to patients with HIV/AIDS and technical assistance to local government units. 467. The social welfare department has been addressing HIV/AIDS in its Integrated Program for Families/Children at Risk of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS. The program trains youth and adults to become peer counselors and trainers on the effects of substance abuse and HIV infection, and provides family care and support services to infected family members. Meanwhile, the health 126

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