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Kwanele is the 100th patient to enroll in Stage 2 of the STREAM clinical trial - the first large-scale, multi-country clinical trial to evaluate shorter treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

According to the World Health Organization, roughly 1.3 million road-related deaths occur each year. That statistic, and the belief that each of those 1.3 million lives could be saved, brought together 154 people from 17 different countries from June 7-9 at the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) partners conference in Mumbai, India.

Throughout the world, around 168 million children are involved in some sort of child labour. To help raise awareness and achieve its goal of eliminating child labour by 2025, Monday, June 12 is the International Labour Organization's 16th annual World Day Against Child Labour.

Communication is a key component of public health and of Vital Strategies’ work. Our organization works to advance the practice of communication and to build the ability of our partners – mostly governments in low- and middle-income countries –­ to implement strategic communication interventions that shape public support for better health policies and address health behaviors at the population level.