Vital Stories

More than 92% of the world’s population is exposed to poor air quality. Air pollution is the fifth leading risk factor for death and accounts for more than 5 million deaths each year globally.

To coincide with World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and the Women Deliver conference (June 3-6), we’re highlighting 7 women who are leading efforts in tobacco control and working to protect the health of people around the world.

We sat down with Daliah Heller, Director of Drug Use Initiatives at Vital Strategies, to get her thoughts on what actions can be taken to reverse the country’s drug overdose crisis.

Fortaleza Mayor Roberto Claudio recently announced that the city of 2.5 million saw a 40 percent reduction in road crash deaths in just four years, from 2014 to 2018.

Six cities in Asia that have long faced stubbornly high rates of smoking are now learning from each other about how to push towards a healthier future.

We sat down with Dr. Frieden to get his top takeaways on what’s being done to prevent these illnesses, and what steps can be taken to reduce their prevalence and impact.

The final results of STREAM Stage 1 were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing the efficacy of a shorter (9–11-month) multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment regimen in comparison to the longer (20–24-month) regimen which was the standard of care when the trial began.

The website serves as an information hub about DIP – what we do, why we do it and where we do it – as well as a repository for the tools and resources that we’ve generated in the first four years of program implementation.

In recent years, Rwanda has invested considerable effort to understand patterns of mortality and tackle the causes.

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating eight urban leaders making a difference around the world by creating healthier, safer cities with the Partnership for Healthy Cities.