Community healthcare workers across the Philippines scored a major legislative breakthrough last 3 August 2026 as the Philippine Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill No. 1905 or the Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers on its third and final reading. Senate Bill No. “The passage of the Magna Carta in the Senate is an overwhelming victory for our 277,000 community health workers,” said Khonan Dark T. Cerial, President of the NCBHWP. “The global labor movement celebrates this decisive Senate vote for community healthcare workers in the Philippines,” said Rajendra Acharya, Regional Secretary of UNI Asia & Pacific.