·      Conduct of 11 Consultations for Community Empowerment through 
Health with 140 NGO/POs attending coming mostly from the Visayas 
and Mindanao Islands, with information disseminated on people’s 
empowerment as the answer to ill effects of globalization through 
strengthening of their alternative health care systems supported by 
Philippine integrative medicine
 ·      An initial definition and description of PIM based on experiences of 
community health programs with advanced practices in AHCS, with 
application of best practices on the management of top 5 common 
disease conditions in these communities and corroborated by 
international/national instruments and charters on health
 ·      Mainstreaming PIM and AHCS to critical sectors in:
	
§ Government 
ù  advocacy for traditional and alternative health care as a patient’s 
right in the Patient’s Rights bill at Congress and Senate
ù  the promotion and use of Philippine integrative medicine as an 
indicator of the right to health at the Philippine Commission on 
Human Rights
ù  development of competency standards, code of ethics and 
accreditation system on Tuina massage therapy and acupuncture
for non-medical acupuncturists, including community health workers
§  Educational system - advocacy for incorporation of TCM healing 
modalities into the medical, dental, nursing, midwifery, nutrition, 
pharmacy, occupational and physical therapy curricula suited to the 
Philippine setting as a policy recommendation from WHO and PITAHC 
§  Health Practitioners - reinforcement of integration of traditional medicine 
as part of the competency standards of a family physician through 
lecture-demonstration of TCM modalities to 150 physicians during 
post-graduate course of UP-PGH; orientation in PIM-AHCS and short 
acupuncture training of total of 162 UP-PGH medical clerks, residents 
of University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital and 
government physicians, nurses, midwives and barangay health workers 
of Tawi-tawi and Cebu
§  Media promotion of INAM advocacies and clinic services
§  NGOs/POs - INAM as part of referral system and integrative medicine 
(IM) service provider of NCR partners and networks


  
 
INAM, together with Medical Action Group (MAG), lobbied for the Patient’s 
Rights Bill that included the right of patients to access traditional and alternative 
medicine.  
INAM, together with MAG, the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines and  
the Commission on Human Rights, are engaged on a joint research to formulate
indicators on the right to health based on its normative contents and to identify 
gaps/limitations in the formulated indicators based on the normative contents.

Development of a Philippine Integrative Medicine (PIM) Curriculum

Launching of a new program – Community Based Recovery Department 
Development of Ear Acupuncture Detox Manual
Making Integrated Health Services more affordable and accessible through 
revision of INAM’s Socialized Payment Scheme
Philippine Integrative Medicine Resource Book