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Taarifa: Three American health specialists from Vital Strategies are training dozens of journalists from different media houses on how to effectively report data in public health. The three-day workshop taking place in Rubavu district started on June 6 and was organized by Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC). It is expected to increase journalists’ capacity to incorporate data in their work.

Business Standard : By fixing 2023 as the deadline to eliminate health-injurious trans fats from the food chain globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has essentially sought to spur the countries to expedite phasing out these fats and stopping their use in food products.

Forbes: Vital Strategies has launched the #QuitBigTobacco campaign that urges companies to cut ties with advertising agencies that work with tobacco companies.

Exchange 4 Media: An anti-smoking digital billboard campaign was launched by Vital Strategies, a global health organization, at the popular DLF Cyber Hub in Gurgaon. For the next four weeks, the billboard will detect a smoker lighting a cigarette or bidi in front of it and respond by launching a short video.

The Express Tribune: In Pakistan, tobacco use is a cause of death of around 160,100 persons every year, Federal Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said on Thursday.

The Inquirer: All are major public-health issues that Kelly Henning has spent much of her adult life trying to address. Henning, a medical doctor and epidemiologist, has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health Program since 2007.

The Conversation: Indonesia’s potential and productivity are being threatened by the number of deaths associated with smoking. Of the 10% of the world’s smokers who live in South-East Asia, half are in Indonesia.