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Uruguay commits to continue the fight against tobacco use and preventable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease and cancer during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

As the world faces rising challenges the critical question of UN leadership is also at stake.

Vital Strategies welcomes the publication of the Vietnam Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2015, which shows a drop in smoking rates.

An analysis of tobacco victim testimonials has found that they have a marked effect on attitudes to tobacco use and support for tobacco control policies and help to encourage behavior change.

Vital Strategies congratulates the Government of Indonesia on a new campaign that graphically highlights the many harmful illnesses caused by tobacco use.

A rural sub-district in Bangladesh, Kaligonj, has committed to registering every birth and death.

The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) recently held the 11th Annual Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program in Baltimore.

Global public health experts Vital Strategies today congratulated World Health Organization and Michael Bloomberg on the latter’s appointment as WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases.

Vital Strategies recently facilitated the STREAM tuberculosis treatment Investigators Meeting in New York.