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Durante más de una década, Vital Strategies ha trabajado con gobiernos de más de 40 países para cambiar políticas - y actitudes - en torno a la aceptabilidad del uso del tabaco. Gracias a un esfuerzo global colectivo, el consumo de tabaco se ha reducido en alrededor de 60 millones de personas desde el 2000.

For over a decade, Vital Strategies has worked with governments in more than 40 countries to change policies—and attitudes—around the acceptability of tobacco use.Thanks to a global collective effort, tobacco use has fallen by around 60 million people since 2000.

To support national governments in enhancing their outbreak surveillance and response planning, Vital Strategies has launched a new technical package to help guide governments in rapid mortality surveillance, informing decision-making based on the true impact of COVID-19 within their countries.

Staying Alert: Navigating COVID-19 Risk Toward a New Normal” recommends that governments implement a four-tiered, color-coded level system that grades the current state of risk from red, “4-Very High Risk,” to green, “1-New Normal.

The New England Journal of Medicine has released results from the largest study of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 and found those who received hydroxychloroquine did not fare any better than patients who did not get the drug.

The new report is putting real-time data about health and public sentiment into the hands of decision-makers. The Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance report includes first-of-its-kind data to adapt COVID-19 pandemic response.

An essential public health tool, country-wide contact testing and tracing will be critical to controlling the infection rate of COVID-19 and will ultimately save lives.

Online tool synthesizes guidance documents and best practices from WHO, US CDC, and Africa CDC and links them to where countries are in the disease curve.

“We applaud cities and states that are doing everything they can to release people from behind bars to prevent a prison pandemic.”

17 April 2020 – As states roll out plans to gradually re-open society,Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director and President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of global health organization Vital Strategies, today released a detailed report outlining critical actions governments and society must commit to – and invest in - to get ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.