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The NCD Alliance has become a full-fledged organization – shifting from an informal alliance to a standalone NGO.

Vital Strategies has welcomed news that the Philippines’ government has signed an Executive Order (EO) that implements a national smokefree policy, but concerns remain that it includes a provision for designated smoking areas.

Vital Strategies joins Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO as an implementing partner in the Partnership for Healthy Cities, providing technical assistance, as needed, to participating cities as they pursue evidence-based interventions that deliver results.

On World Asthma Day, Vital Strategies calls upon governments to work together with environmental, public health and other development organizations to deliver clean air policies that would benefit millions of asthma sufferers.

Vital Strategies has congratulated authorities and health advocates in New York City on their work to introduce a series of new policies to curb tobacco use. These policies include raising the minimum price of all tobacco products and reducing through attrition the 9,000 tobacco retailers in NYC.

Progress to reduce smoking in China would reduce the total global burden of tobacco