 World No Tobacco Day
31 May 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) selects "tobacco industry interference" as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Thursday, 31 May 2012. The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health. Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless we act, it will kill up to 8 million people by 2030, of which more than 80% will live in low- and middle-income countries.
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Countries of the Americas promote integrated action to eliminate neglected diseases
More than 100 million people in the Americas suffer from neglected infectious diseases, which tend to affect poor populations. Experts from member countries of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) will review efforts to eliminate 10 such diseases from the Americas and reduce the impact of two others by 2015. The review will take place in the context of the 16th annual meeting of the WHO Alliance for Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma by 2020 (GET 2020), which brings together experts on trachoma and other neglected diseases from around the world. Trachoma, which can cause permanent blindness, is a neglected infectious disease that exists in four countries of the Americas.
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PAHO calls for a new generation of HIV treatment programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
New report says health system weaknesses threaten the region’s status as a global leader in ART
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the highest rates of antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage of any developing region in the world, with an estimated 63 percent of people with HIV who need treatment receiving it. But a new report from the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) says that preserving the region’s leadership in providing ART will require overcoming health system problems that range from drug stock-outs to lack of cost-effectiveness in the use of drug combinations
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