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The Union was founded on a hope and on a dream that they would bring about a world free from the devastation of tuberculosis

In partnership with Vital Strategies and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), Bogotá's campaign will focus on the reduction of speeding – particularly in school zones.

Vital Strategies joins the World Heart Federation and the global community in urging governments and civil society to re-double their efforts to reduce the global burden of heart disease and take rapid and cost-effective action to reduce the growing burden of 18 million CVD-related annual deaths worldwide.

Is anything less believable than Big Tobacco investing in a smoke-free future?

We can work towards a world where every person is aware of what is at stake, and can take actions that will protect them from the harms of NCDs.

Vital Strategies has joined the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the National Administrative Department of Statistics in launching the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative in Colombia.

Vital Strategies’ portfolio of work addresses the seven leading causes of mortality in the world, according to data in the recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study released by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Unfortunately, the burden of NCDs is only increasing. People are more exposed to behavioral and environmental risk factors.