International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Tobacco control:the bloomberg initiative to reduce tobacco use is working to implement proven tobacco control policies around the world. It aims to reduce the global demand for tobacco through a comprehensive, proven approach that combines policy change with increased public awareness.in 2017, Vital Strategies advanced critical tobacco control policies across 10 countries and significantly influenced standards and practice globally. As a result, hundreds of millions more people are protected by new or strengthened mpower policies; millions have quit smoking as a direct result of our campaigns; we know more about how to gain traction on tax campaigns and expose tobacco industry tactics; and we have built stronger public support on- and offline for new interventions. In 2017, Vital Strategies supported 38 best-practice media campaigns in 10 countries while garnering significant government investment. Government partners provided funds or in-kind donations totaling more than $4 million and contributed in every country where ...

Data for health:the bloomberg data for health initiative aims to, in four years; improve health data for policy making for over 1 billion people in 20 low- and middle income countries and cities. As part of the initiative, bloomberg philanthropies issued a grant to Vital Strategies, an usa-based affiliate of the International Union for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, on march 30, 2015. The goal of the grant is to help countries: (i) improve birth and death certificate systems; (ii) conduct efficient public health surveys to monitor major risk factors for early death and (iii) support governments to strategically use public health data to inform policy priorities. Under the grant Vital Strategies is required to (i) coordinate the selection process for 20 countries and cities in the initiative; (ii) lead implementation management for the strengthening of birth, death, and cause-of-death data in the civil registration and Vital statistics (crvs) component of ...

Resolve:global cardiovascular health and public health infrastructure initiatives, also known as resolve to save 100 million lives and resolve to prevent epidemicsproject goals for these initiatives include:- cardiovascular health initiative: catalyze progress reducing the burden of cardiovascular Disease in low- and middle- income countries.- preventing epidemics (public health infrastructure) initiative: reduce risk of epidemics by strengthening capacity of low- and middle-income countries to detect, respond to, and prevent health threats.the following summarizes progress, including building a great team and launching key partnerships. Of particular note regarding progress in the first year:- rapid progress improving global recommendations and policy for hypertension treatment and increasing the accountability of treatment programs, with patients being treated in 3 states of india under the new strategy - global launch of replace, an action package to eliminate artificial trans-fats from the global food supply by 2023, with new commitments made by thailand (2019 target date) and ...