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The month-long campaign, “Never Drink and Drive,” aims to reach the 8 million drivers in the city through television, radio, social media, billboards and in movie theaters.

New research estimates that 50 million premature deaths could be averted worldwide in the next 50 years if countries increased excise taxes to deliver a 50 percent increase in the prices of tobacco products, alcohol and sugary beverages.

José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, issued the following statement to coincide with World Health Day 2019: “Access to health care should be a universal human right, yet half the world’s population lacks essential medical services."

The website serves as an information hub about DIP – what we do, why we do it and where we do it – as well as a repository for the tools and resources that we’ve generated in the first four years of program implementation.

Air pollution causes more than 1.5 million deaths each year in South and Southeast Asia, but news and social media from a three-year period show poor public understanding of its major causes and the most promising solutions.

This forum shows that we have much more recognition than ever before of the human rights dimensions of tobacco control.