Press Mentions AMA Boss Breaks Ground For Start Of Road Safety Project Ghana Crusader: The Mayor of Accra Mohammed Adjei Sowah has broken ground for the commencement of the Road Safety enhancement project at the Lapaz intersection.
Vital Stories Quality Data Spurs Action on Life-Saving Policies Vital Strategies and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control hosted a two-week “Data to Policy Training” workshop, providing technical assistance to government staff to enhance the skills of government staff to use data and analytic methods to develop new policy recommendations.
Vital Stories Developing Knowledge, Building Trust: Addis Ababa’s Community Advisory Board Takes Part In Community Engagement Capacity Building Training As Part Of The STREAM Trial Earlier this month, 15 members of the STREAM community advisory board (CAB) from Addis Ababa took part in a refresher training session run by Dr Mohammed Abseno, trial sub-investigator and coordinator for the St. Peter’s Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital, one of the two STREAM sites in Ethiopia.
Press Mentions Healthy Lifestyle Campaign To Reduce Consumption Of Sugary Drinks City of Cape Town: The City of Cape Town’s announced its new initiative to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks as part of the Partnership for Healthy Cities, a global network of cities committed to reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Press Mentions Can The Food Industry Eliminate Trans Fats By 2023? Just Food: While trans fats occur in small quantities naturally in meat and dairy products, the use of industrially-produced or artificial trans fats in processed foods greatly increased the presence of trans fats in the food supply and thereby their impact on human health.
Press Mentions Cities And NCDs: Montevideo’s Menu For Reducing Sodium Intake Devex : In Uruguay’s capital city, the government has been waging war against high sodium consumption.
Press Mentions Researchers Continue To Develop Antivirals For Ebola, Zika, Other Infectious Diseases BioSpace: In 2014, an outbreak of the hemorrhagic Ebola virus swept across six African countries and killed more than 11,300 people. Tom Frieden, the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the outbreak “the world’s first Ebola epidemic” that was “spiraling out of control.”
Press Mentions Ahead Of UNGA, Over 50 Health Experts Sign Letter For Action On NCDs Devex: A powerhouse cast of United Nations, civil society, and academic leaders have come together to call for bold, practical action to reduce the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.
Press Room Bold Action and Explicit Commitment Needed To Reduce Non-Communicable Diseases Vital Strategies has joined more than 50 health experts to call for a bold, practical approach to reduce this global epidemic. Officials from ministries of health and the United Nations, leaders of civil society organizations, and academics have joined forces to co-sign a letter published in The Lancet.
Press Room World Trade Organization Backs Australia On Plain Tobacco Packaging This ruling adds to those made in a number of national and international courts that adopting plain packaging is a legitimate action to protect public health.