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How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40%

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.

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To Better the Lives of Women and Girls, Improve CRVS Systems

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Air Pollution: Where There Is Fire, There Is Smoke

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Results Of Clinical Trial Find Promise In Shorter Drug Treatment Regimen For Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis

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Will Brazil’s Bolsonaro administration stall food labels that could reduce obesity?
When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018, it raised a familiar problem for public health advocates: How to maintain momentum on important…
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How Mexico Stood Up to Big Soda and What Latin America Is Doing in the Fight Against Obesity
Alejandro Calvillo Unna, founder and director of Mexico’s El Poder del Consumidor (The Power of the Consumer) discussed how Mexico, succeeded in passing a soda tax that has successfully reduced consumption.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies gives Pennsylvania $10 million to reduce overdose deaths
WHYY Public Media : Heller said they chose Pennsylvania as a first state in hopes that its diverse cultural geography could offer models for both rural and urban regions hit hard by high numbers of overdose deaths. In 2017, 5,400 people in Pennsylvania fatally overdosed.
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Bloomberg charity names first Pa. projects in $10 million response to overdose epidemic
Pittsburgh Post- Gazette : Following up on a $10 million pledge last fall to address the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania, the charity founded by entrepreneur and former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced funding Tuesday for the first projects in the state.
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Bloomberg announces Pennsylvania projects in its $10M overdose-prevention initiative
The Philadelphia Inquirer : Vital Strategies, the public health nonprofit that is working with Bloomberg Philanthropies on the project, is announcing Tuesday that the money will help more than 100 hospitals to develop treatment strategies for opioid use disorder.
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Pennsylvania Governor, Law Enforcement, and Hospitals Advance Efforts to Reduce Overdose Deaths
Investments will expand access to medications in hospitals and prisons, increase availability of naloxone in communities and train sheriffs on harm reduction strategies.
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WHO Endorsement of Simpler Drug Treatment for Blood Pressure Will Save Lives
This is a critical step to improve the availability and affordability of these drugs, making it easier for the more than 1 billion people with high blood pressure to regularly take the medicines they need.
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100 Countries Now Know How Prepared They Are for Next Outbreak – Time to Close the Gaps
One hundred countries have now completed a Joint External Evaluation (JEE), the world’s gold standard for evaluating how prepared a country is to find, stop and prevent an epidemic.
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No-one should be fooled by Philip Morris’ global rebranding strategy: Creative agencies are urged to Quit Big Tobacco
Vital Strategies today issued the following statement in reaction to Philip Morris International being featured in Cannes Lions Festival’s “Good” track, which is supposed to promote work that “makes the world a better place.”
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In Rwanda and Around the World, Cities are Driving Action Against the World’s #1 Preventable Killer: Tobacco.
The world’s leading preventable killer—tobacco—comes center stage every year on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, bringing attention to the 7 million tobacco-related annual deaths caused by tobacco use and aiming to boost tobacco control policies and efforts.

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How One City In Brazil Reduced Road Crash Deaths By A Remarkable 40%

To Better the Lives of Women and Girls, Improve CRVS Systems

Air Pollution: Where There Is Fire, There Is Smoke

Results Of Clinical Trial Find Promise In Shorter Drug Treatment Regimen For Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis

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