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Medellin, Cali and Bogota sent food policy experts to a Partnership for Healthy Cities workshop last week to pick up tips from Vital Strategies and from each other about dealing with soaring obesity problems—especially among children.

Vital Strategies joined our partners in health and human rights in denouncing the appointment of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organization (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador through a joint statement. Shortly afterwards, the appointment was revoked.

The city of Montevideo, Uruguay announced its initiative under the Partnership for Healthy Cities - a campaign to fight hypertension and cardiovascular disease by helping residents of the city cut back on salt.

Two Indian cities announced initiatives under the Partnership for Healthy Cities in recent days: Ahmedabad and Bengaluru.

Preliminary results from Stage 1 of STREAM show that the nine-month treatment regimen being tested achieved favourable outcomes in almost 80 percent of those treated.