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The World Health Organization's emphasis for World Health Day 2009 is on the resilience and safety of health facilities and the health workers who treat those affected by emergencies. Many of the world's rural areas, however, have very few trained health workers and almost no emergency facilities.

We applaud the Norwegian government for divesting its government pension fund of stocks that profit from tobacco. By doing so, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance has drawn a clear ethical boundary between itself and an industry that has proven it is willing to compromise its customers' health for profit.

Senior Advisor Dr. Judith Mackay was awarded the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award at the BMJ Group Awards in London. The BMJ Group Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in healthcare across the globe.

According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2008, nine million people around the world die annually from the disease, which is totally curable.

According to The Tobacco Atlas, tobacco's estimated $500 billion drain on the world economy exceeds the total combined annual expenditure on health in all low-and middle-income countries.

The only way to ensure ethical marketing practices is through clear, enforceable regulation.

World Lung Foundation urges the governments of the G7 to move immediately to fill the funding gap faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

This life‐saving decision will increase safe pregnancies and childbirths and help reverse unacceptably high rates of maternal and child mortality.

Congress should ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an international treaty that obligates governments to take measures that protect citizens from tobacco use.

The decision by the US Supreme Court clears the way for victims of so-called ‘light' and ‘low-tar' tobacco advertising to have their day in court.