Vital Stories

Public health officials from seven cities across China have learned about best practice tobacco control policies during a study tour to New York City, hosted by Vital Strategies.

Since harmful alcohol use is known to be one of the four leading risk factors of non-communicable disease globally, Vital Strategies is interested to find out more about this important area of disease prevention, policy and advocacy.

The global battle against TB and MDR-TB is happening on a number of fronts, from efforts to increase access to vaccinations, to the development of faster diagnostic tests and treatments.

According to WHO, more than 300,000 women (830 every day) die every year in pregnancy and childbirth, over 99 percent of them in low and middle income countries. Unfortunately, this burden of death is only part of the picture.

35 million deaths each year - 65% of all deaths worldwide - will go unrecorded. Vital Strategies is partnering with the Bloomberg Data For Health Initiative for an ambitious 4-year initiative to pave the way for a world where every life is counted.

Md. Shafiqul Islam, Bangladesh Country Advisor for Vital Strategies, writes about the importances of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh in The Daily Star

Dr. Nandita Murukutla writes an Op-Ed in Mid-Day about how large graphic health warnings on tobacco products are urgently needed to ensure India reaches its full economic potential.

In Ethiopia, a silent epidemic has been taking lives for centuries. This country of over 90 million people bears an enormous burden from tuberculosis and lung disease on the African continent.

Our Data for Health program is helping the Solomon Islands implement a new vital registration system to better track the causes of deaths in the country.

African leaders met in Ethiopia from 24 -25 February for a Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa. Their focus: expanding access to vaccines.