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SAP WAITLISTED PATULOY BA IPINAMAMAHAGI  Babae Serye: A widow’s hopeful journey amidst the pandemic There is no greater loss than the loss of a loved one; especially losing a partner during the COVID-19 pandemic. After her husband, Christopher Betonio succumbed to kidney failure in February 2020, the 39-year old Jeneveve was devastated. She barely knew what she was going to do. “Ang ahong huna-huna napuno og mga pangutana. Nganong nahitabo mani sa aho? Kaya ba kaha naho nga ako ra? Unsaon man naho pagpadako among mga anak? (My mind was filled with a lot of questions. Why did this happen to me? Can I really do it by myself? How will I raise our children?),” she asked. Claive James, 17, is studying at Northern Mindanao Colleges in Cabadbaran City as a Grade 12 student, while Clent Jay, 16, is now a Grade 10 student at Pili National High School. Even though life was hard, they have managed to get through it, as she also has supportive parent-in-laws. “Nakadumdum ko nga misugilon akong...

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 UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER  Unconditional cash transfers are cash payments provided to financially disadvantaged people without requiring anything in return. Governments in low- and middle-income countries increasingly use these to reduce poverty or other vulnerabilities, such as those related to health. In 2011, up to a billion people received a form of cash transfer. For the first time, a team of public health experts from across the globe (including Dr Ruhi Saith, a senior consultant at OPM India)  collaborated to assess  the effects of such cash transfers on health services use, health outcomes, social determinants of health, and healthcare expenditure among children and adults in low- and middle-income countries. A total of 21 studies covering more than one million participants and over thirty thousand households in Africa, the Americas, and southeast Asia were reviewed. Almost all studies were large-scale, randomised controlled trials (with cash transfer reci...