Heart Foundation of Jamaica to keep pressing for sugary drinks tax June 6, 2019

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) says that despite opposition, it will not relent in its campaign for the Government to institute a tax on sugary drinks in a bid to  [ ... ]

NCD Alliance Trans Fat Free 2023 Report
The Trans Fat Free by 2023 report presents case studies of six countries in different regions of the world that have enacted policies to eliminate industrially-produced trans fatty acids/trans fat (TFA) from t [ ... ]

Launch of new policy brief on air pollution at WHA72
In conjunction with the 72nd World Health Assembly taking place this week in Geneva, Switzerland, the NCD Alliance launched a new policy brief on the impact of air pollution on human health in par [ ... ]

FIC Argentina Receives World No Tobacco Day Award 31 May 2019

(Buenos Aires, May 31) Every year the World Health Organization (WHO) distinguishes different organizations and individuals with the World No Tobacco Day Award. It is a recogniti [ ... ]

Colombian Health Group Files Lawsuit to Block Marketing of IQOS Heated Cigarettes Statement by Patricia Sosa, Director of Latin American and the Caribbean Programs, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
May 27, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC – Following ext [ ... ]

Confronting Illicit Tobacco Trade: A Global Review of Country Experiences February 1, 2019

The World Bank has recently released a new report on "Confronting Illicit Tobacco Trade: A Global Review of Country Experiences".  The report de [ ... ]

World Salt Awareness Week 2019
Costa Rica joins in World Salt Awareness Week 2019 and focuses on childhood salt intake.
World Salt Awareness Week will be held on March 4-10, 2019 with the theme "Time to act for salt".

This is an initiative of WASH (Wo [ ... ]

15 Thousand Chileans Die each Year due to Arterial Hypertension According to the ENS 2016-2017, 27.6% of Chilean adults are hypertensive, which in figures reaches 3.5 million people. The biggest problem is that, in the group between 35 and 75 years, [ ... ]

Obesity and its consequences spreading rapidly around the world.
Clogged arteries and sedentary lifestyles have replaced germs as the world's leading killers. Read more in this article by By JIM LANDERS, The Dallas Morning News,Washington Burea [ ... ]