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May 18, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Blood tests have traditionally been used to detect the HIV virus WLF is cited in this Financial Times article pitting tobacco companies against the plain truth . The number of... World Lung Foundation more...
May 11, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Christy Turlington Burns, seated right, and CNN Hero Robin Lim, seated left, with moms and their newborns at the Bumi Sehat clinic in Bali, Indonesia (CNN) CNN asks if the world should... World Lung Foundation more...
May 8, 2012 Developing and Implementing an Effective Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign The day before the 15th WCTOH 2012, which took place in Singapore in March, WLF did a pre-conference workshop called How to Develop and Implement an Effective Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign . The workshop was attended by about 60 people from 27 countries across the... World Lung Foundation more...
May 4, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Pedestrians attempt to cross a busy highway in India. Photograph: Kaushik Roy/Getty Images The Oxford University Press asks: Why is tobacco control still a problem in Europe? WLF... World Lung Foundation more...
May 2, 2012 Using Education and Communications to Advance Tobacco Control Goals At last month’s World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Singapore, WLF was invited to speak about the role of education and communication in advancing tobacco control goals. In a two-hour session, we shared our experience marrying mass media campaigns with different tobacco control... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 27, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Japan’s smokers still light up. (Reuters) Tanzania’s government is urged by WLF and other NGOs to authorize private companies to supply life-saving drugs to rural hospitals. (The... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 27, 2012 New Study Predicts Potential Global Impact of Tobacco Control Policies (New York, USA) – World Lung Foundation welcomed a new study published in Tobacco Control journal that predicted countries could reduce the global adult smoking rate by 44 percent by 2030. The study, entitled “ The potential impact of smoking control policies on future global smoking... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 20, 2012 World Lung Foundation Calls for Stronger Warnings About the Dangers of Tobacco to Heart Health New report highlights alarming lack of awareness of the risks of smoking and secondhand smoke to heart health (April 20, 2012, New York, USA) – World Lung Foundation today welcomed a new report published by World Heart Federation, World Health Organization and the International... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 20, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Annabel Clark, right, with her cancer-stricken mother Lynn Redgrave in March 2003. In her book, Clark writes, "After shaving my mother's head and feeling that our roles had been reversed, I realized... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 19, 2012 Poster: The Most Dangerous Places Click on image for a full scale view At the 15th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Singapore, I presented a poster designed to present a global snapshot of the best and worst places when it comes to smoking prevalence, youth and secondhand smoke, smoke-free areas, and... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 13, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Obama Anti-Smoking Law Faces Partisan Headwinds In Court WLF is quoted in this unsettling Jakarta Globe article about smoking rates in Indonesia—the only country in Asia that has not... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 11, 2012 Big Tobacco: Past or Present? A new series on Field Reports, in which we contrast tobacco news from decades ago with current tobacco news—demonstrating just how little Big Tobacco’s playbook has changed. QUESTION: Which quote is from the past, and which is from the present? Quote 1:... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 5, 2012 This Week in Global Health World Lung Foundation
Mar 29, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Tarya Seagraves-Quee bathes her six-year-old autistic son Joshua in their room at a motel in Cambridge, Massachusetts July 8, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder WLF’s Tobacco Atlas ‘... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 24, 2012 World Lung Foundation Warns Drug-Resistant TB Threatening To Overwhelm All Current Tuberculosis Control Efforts World Lung Foundation Warns Drug-Resistant TB Threatening To Overwhelm All Current Tuberculosis Control Efforts - At least half a billion people have MDR or XDR TB - - 2 Million Will Die From TB This Year and More Than 8 Million New Cases Will Develop - - Potential Rays Of Hope In New... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 22, 2012 China’s Ministry of Health Launches First National Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign On February 28th, China’s Ministry of Health and the Chinese Center for Health Education convened a high-profile press conference in Beijing to launch a national TV campaign to promote smoke-free healthcare facilities. The campaign centers around an ad called Invisible... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 15, 2012 New CDC Anti-Tobacco Campaign Marks Huge Step in American Tobacco Control (New York, USA) - World Lung Foundation today applauded the new public education campaign launched today from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The campaign, called “Tips From Former Smokers,” is the first of its kind from a federal agency in the United States. Sandra... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 8, 2012 Tobacco Industry Marketing is Deadly to Children (New York, USA) - World Lung Foundation today welcomed the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report, which shines a much-needed light on the epidemic of youth smoking in the United States and the marketing efforts of the tobacco industry to hook a new generation of victims. The report, Preventing... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 7, 2012 Big Tobacco: Past or Present? A new series on Field Reports, in which we contrast tobacco news from decades ago with current tobacco news—demonstrating just how little Big Tobacco’s playbook has changed. QUESTION: Which quote is from the past, and which is from the present? Quote 1:... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 24, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Rajni, a severely malnourished 2-year-old girl, is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, Feb. 1, 2012. In the US, A... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 22, 2012 Big Tobacco: Past or Present? A new series on Field Reports, in which we contrast tobacco news from decades ago with current tobacco news—demonstrating just how little Big Tobacco’s playbook has changed. QUESTION: Which quotes are from the past, and which is from the present? Quote 1:... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 21, 2012 New Campaign Shows Harmful Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children New Campaign Facebook Page To Provide Support For People Seeking to Quit (New Delhi, India) - A new tobacco control campaign was launched today in India to warn people about the deadly effects of second-hand smoke exposure on children. The campaign, developed by the Ministry of... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 17, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Two thirds of 35-44 year olds said they would refuse a kiss from a smoker WLF kicks off a groundbreaking tobacco control campaign in Tabasco, Mexico. (Milenio Online; original... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 15, 2012 State of Tabasco, Mexico, Ministry of Health Launches New Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign View Press Release in Spanish (Tabasco, Mexico) - The Ministry of Health of the State of Tabasco, Mexico, today launched a new graphic mass media campaign called "Quit Smoking, It’s Worth It". The campaign graphically depicts that children and teenagers exposed to secondhand... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 10, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. A campaigner dressed to drive home a point. (AFP) A leading US health official has warned that a campaign started by a children's hospital to fight childhood obesity poses health... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 3, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Crashes and near-misses are seen daily in the streets of Mexico City's federal district (AFP/File, David Deolarte) A study of more than 70,000 women in Norway finds that daughters... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 31, 2012 Norway in January Last month, World Lung Foundation’s Associate Director of Communication and Special Projects Rebecca Perl traveled to Oslo to help the Norwegian government launch a tobacco control mass media campaign. Here, she takes us through the ins and outs of a national campaign launched in a sunless... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 27, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Michelle Obama ate a turkey taco while having lunch with school children at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. on Wednesday. A new campaign is launched to establish smoking... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 25, 2012 Tobacco Control in Vietnam: Looking Forward to a Healthy New Year Working in global tobacco control, I’m often reminded of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, the king who was sentenced to an eternity of pushing a boulder up a mountain. Every time he nearly reached the apex, the boulder would tumble back down the mountain, forcing him to begin... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 20, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. R.J. Reynolds' Orbs, a dissolvable tobacco product. The Food and Drug administration is studying the flavored products. (Charles Dharapak/AP) Dissolvable tobacco products, derided by... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 13, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. The Solar Suitcase at work in a primary health care centre in Liberia. Photo: WE CARE Solar The Hindustan Times reports that pictures of cigarettes can literally leave smokers... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 6, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Tobacco kills close to a half million Americans each year, with one in every five U.S. deaths the result of smoking. SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Washington Post opines that Philip... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 5, 2012 Making Waves in 2011: WLF Speaks Out Dr. Neil Schluger (right), WLF’s Chief Scientific Officer, interviewed by CNBC reporter Brian Shactman for Cigarette Wars . Each Friday, WLF publishes “This Week in Global Health,” a list of interesting and important articles which you can catch by liking us on Facebook ,... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 2, 2012 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Are Boring Packages Enough to Keep Teenagers From Smoking? The WHO attempts to impose a tobacco tax in India for non-compliance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. (Business Standard)... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 23, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Women in a peaceful demonstration on Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, in the past to demand more money for maternal health.Every year 358,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth and 7.6 million... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 16, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Scott Fraser, vice president of SBT (holdings) Co Ltd., demonstrates an 'e-cigarette', which activates light and vapour. (Bobby Yip/ Reuters) Big Tobacco settles with the US Justice... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 15, 2011 The Unwrapped Gift to Improve Public Health: Plain Cigarette Packaging Would Help Save Lives in 2012 and Beyond (New York, USA) - World Lung Foundation today called for governments to enact legislation to require plain packaging for cigarettes, citing it as perhaps the best “unwrapped” gift to public health in 2012. As people who smoke plan their New Year resolution to quit smoking, World Lung... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 9, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Mississippi ranked last in the latest look at health status in America. This video explores the factors behind the high prevalence of obesity in the state. The Dutch government is accused... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 6, 2011 “The conflict is over”: An insider’s unique perspective on smoking in Bollywood films Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai smoking in Guzaarish. Bollywood films were a staple of my childhood. Movies were omnipresent: in classrooms, on the streets, on magazine covers, at dinnertime conversations… even in my dreams. Cut to the late 90s—I began a career in movie... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 2, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Japan Tobacco’s ties to professional volleyball teams and the ongoing World Cup tournament for women have prompted local and international opposition and a call to stop the association.... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 23, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Crisis looms as Global Fund forced to cut back on Aids, malaria and TB grants WHO Director-General Margaret Chan slams tobacco companies that ‘harass’ governments trying... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 18, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Widespread tobacco smoking and the use of wood and coal as fuel are the major causes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). PHOTO: FILE President Obama says cigarette manufacturers... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 24, 2011 WLF Assesses the Impact of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: Part 2 of 2 Now that the initial hubbub has faded, it’s time to take stock of what was really learned at the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases. What lessons were learned, what will the summit’s impact ultimately be, and what’s the path for advocates going forward? Field... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 20, 2011 WLF Assesses the Impact of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: Part 1 of 2 Rebecca Perl, Associate Director of Communications and Special Projects Now that the initial hubbub has faded, it’s time to take stock of what was really learned at the UN summit on non-communicable diseases. What lessons were gleaned, what will the summit’s impact ultimately... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 18, 2011 The Government of DKI Jakarta Launches First-ever Graphic Tobacco Control Campaign in Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia) - The government of DKI Jakarta today launched Indonesia’s first-ever graphic mass media campaign to warn people about the dangers of smoking. The campaign graphically depicts how smoking damages vital organs of the body and can cause serious health problems, even... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 14, 2011 This Week in Global Health World Lung Foundation
Oct 13, 2011 Russia Doesn’t Want to be # 1 Anymore In advance of the UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in NYC in September, a national forum on the health of the Russian nation was held in Moscow. Hundreds of medical and public health experts from all across Russia gathered to celebrate successes and find solutions to issues... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 7, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Growing pains Poor countries are developing the diseases of the rich, with lethal consequences Australia urges other nations to reject a potential WTO challenge mounted by Big... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 5, 2011 Largest Conference on Tobacco Control in Chinese – Speaking World Held Successfully in Taipei From Sept 4th to 6th, the 5th Cross-Strait Conference on Tobacco Control was held in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by the John Tung Foundation. Over 400 advocates, scholars, public health professionals, and representatives of NGOs from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, gathered to share... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 30, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. (Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images) A new study says tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic. WLF discusses China’s smoking... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 29, 2011 Mashable’s Social Good Summit: The Highlights Ted Turner opened the Social Good Summit with many humorous quotes. One of my favorite is that guys that are wrong will give up before guys that are right. Last week, I attended the first day of Mashable’s Social Good Summit , which examined how emerging new media tools are... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 23, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Two actors try to dissuade passersby from smoking, as part of a campaign by the Singapore Health Promotion Board. (AP/Wong Maye-E) The UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases was held... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 16, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. On the table are proposals to fight obesity, cut tobacco and alcohol use and expand access to lifesaving drugs in an effort to tackle unhealthy diets and lifestyles that drive three of every five... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 14, 2011 Ask the Expert: Q&A with WLF's Rebecca Perl on FDA's New Tobacco Pack Warnings Field Reports sat down with Rebecca Perl, Associate Director of Communications and Special Projects, to discuss the ongoing legal battles between the FDA and tobacco companies, who are suing to block new graphic pack warnings. Current cigarette pack from US Planned pack... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 9, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. A banana seller smokes a bidi, the ‘poor man’s cigarette’. J Adam Huggins for The National World Lung Foundation’s Dr. Judith MacKay speaks to China Daily about making... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 7, 2011 Glimmers of hope in Indonesia A view of Monas, the national monument, taken from Jakarta's City Hall. Even before my first trip to Jakarta in July, I knew that Indonesia was a daunting environment for tobacco control. First introduced by the Dutch, tobacco production is deeply rooted in the country’s history... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 2, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. 15000aday.org WLF calls for urgent action as negotiations on the UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases come to a close. The Guardian reports that slow progress in reducing... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 29, 2011 Meeting Vietnam's Vice Health Minister Madame Xuyen World Lung Foundation technical advisor Tom Carroll met with Vietnam's Vice Health Minister Madame Xuyen while participating in a World Health Organization assessment of tobacco-control capacity in that country.The trip has been "a terrific chance to delve deeper into the tobacco... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 26, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. WLF’s Jorge Alday is quoted in British Medical Journal’s troubling article, Will Industry Influence Derail UN Summit , as negotiations leading up to September’s UN Summit on Non- Communicable... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 26, 2011 Using Threat Appeals in New Media Channels Read Tom Carroll’s post on threat appeals’ effectiveness in tobacco control here "Stop the Heartbreak: Quit smoking and Take action against tobacco" campaign Although the use of fear appeals in tobacco control campaigns can be controversial, research suggests... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 24, 2011 Threat Appeals– How and when are they effective? Every Cigarette is Doing You Damage - Carotid Fear appeals’, ‘threat appeals’, ‘scare tactics’- many different terms have been applied to describe the use of graphic, scary images or threatening messages in health promotion and injury prevention campaigns. Such appeals have... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 19, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. WLF’s Rebecca Perl talks to the BBC ’s Claudia Hammond about the lack of commitment shown by countries in the run up to the crucial UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases. WLF’s... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 12, 2011 This Week in Global Health A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Tobacco WLF’s Prof. Judith McKay is interviewed on a prominent current affairs radio program on WBEZ Chicago. She talks about how smoking is on the rise globally – and what that means for world... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 4, 2011 The ‘Heartbreak’ Campaign- Fighting Tobacco’s Devastating Effects in India Since WLF started working in India in 2007, a coalition of partners (including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, WLF and other non-governmental organizations) has launched 8 national and state tobacco control campaigns in 15 languages – a revolutionary achievement in this country... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 1, 2011 WLF In The News WLF continues to work with media around the world to advocate for better health policies. Each press opportunity is critical to building awareness and persuading governments that they can and ought to do more. Here’s a round-up of WLF in this month’s news: More than... World Lung Foundation more...
Jul 28, 2011 New Campaign Shows Heart Breaking Effects of Smoking Bidis (New Delhi, India and New York, USA) - A national tobacco control campaign launched today in India to warn people about the dangers of bidi smoking. The campaign, developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with support from World Lung Foundation, graphically depicts a bidi smoker... World Lung Foundation more...
Jul 25, 2011 A Newbie’s Look at Graphic Tobacco Ads Giving Cigarettes Is Giving Harm Growing up in Taiwan, I would go into restaurants with my family and specify that we wanted to sit at the “non-smoking” table. Without me thinking much about it, smoke-free environments became the norm for me, as I thought they would for... World Lung Foundation more...
Jul 20, 2011 Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, Part III: A Dose of Reality This is the third segment of a three-part series on the methods tobacco companies use to market cigarettes to women in Russia. Read Part I and Part II . Tobacco companies use a full spectrum of tactics to target women in Russia: from direct advertising via traditional media... World Lung Foundation more...
Jul 15, 2011 Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, PART II: Making Death Look and Taste More Appealing This is the second segment of a three-part series on the methods tobacco companies use to market cigarettes to women in Russia. Read Part I: Marketing Death to the Vulnerable Russian tobacco marketers are eager to get women smoking early and often, and have poured money into... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 29, 2011 Choking on Tar: Hard-hitting 'Sponge' ad shows Mauritians the frightening truth about smokers' lungs Through the month of June, beginning with a press launch on World No Tobacco Day, the TV, radio and billboard “Sponge” campaign aired across Mauritius. Developed by Ministry of Health with WLF support, the “Sponge” campaign showed the amount of tar that... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 24, 2011 Lessons from Tobacco Control: Should the Food Industry sit at the health policy table? The rise in soft drink consumption in the US mirrors the rising incident of obesity. At the midpoint of the 20th century, Americans drank four times as much milk as soda. Today, the ratio is almost completely reversed and in the past 30 years the national obesity rate has more than tripled... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 23, 2011 Tobacco Control in Tianjin – an Ongoing Effort “Cigarettes Are Eating Your Baby Alive” billboards on bus station, Sept. 2010 World No Tobacco Day heralded the launch of tobacco control events across the globe- including the kick-off of significant anti-tobacco efforts in Tianjin, China. As a staff member of World Lung Foundation... World Lung Foundation more...
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Jun 20, 2011 Tobacco on the agenda at the UN NCD Meeting "Mukesh Harane was a 24-year-old Indian man with dreams and aspirations like any other. Unfortunately, he acquired a habit of using chewing tobacco. Only about a year later he discovered he had oral cancer. He was worried that he might be disfigured from the treatment, or even lose his... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 15, 2011 Ask the Expert: Q&A with FCA's Laurent Huber on Tobacco Pack Warnings and FCTC Article 11 Laurent Hubert Director, FCA On World No Tobacco Day , World Lung Foundation launched an innovative web resource, The Tobacco Pack Warning Resource , designed to aid health advocates in creating compelling pictorial pack warnings. We sat down with Laurent Huber , Director of... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 14, 2011 Maternal Death Crisis Addressed at Summit in Tanzania Download release in Swahili A lack of Basic Surgical Supplies and Trained Personnel Threatens Progress (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) - On World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation launches a new web resource for governments, World Lung Foundation convened a “Summit on Stopping... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 13, 2011 A New Yorker’s Response to Smoke-Free Park Scofflaws Stephen Hamill, member of WLF staff, guests blogs on New York Dad blog . The author and his son, Ben, enjoy the smoke-free air in Prospect Park A second weekend of smoke-free parks and beaches has passed, a welcome and healthy change for my son Ben, 14... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 10, 2011 Media Advisory:
Summit to Address Maternal Death in Tanzania Contact Maria Sarungi-Tsehai, Dar Es Salaam 784235215 Jorge Alday, New York City +1 6463548922 WHAT: Summit to Address Maternal Death in Tanzania World Lung Foundation will convene a two day (13 and 14 June) “Summit on Stopping Needless Maternal Deaths” to address... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 9, 2011 They Never Stop: Tobacco Marketing Crosses the Line In something that looks like it could be out of the 1950s, and would be outlawed in most countries in the World, "healthier" cigarettes are being advertised in Tanzania. Thanks to our Tanzanian colleagues for forwarding this picture for forwarding this to us, on World No Tobacco Day!... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 2, 2011 Fighting Tobacco in the Philippines: No Easy Task I recently joined 13 national, international and World Health Organization health experts in a two week immersion into the Philippines’ tobacco control environment. The team interviewed representatives from 78 institutions, including government agencies, non-profits, media and private... World Lung Foundation more...
May 31, 2011 A Global Fight: World Lung Foundation on World No Tobacco Day Today, on World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), WLF is taking action across the globe, by launching a new web resource and kicking off mass media campaigns in six countries. In doing so, we proudly join national and international organizations in a collective effort against the terrible human cost of... World Lung Foundation more...
May 31, 2011 First Ever National Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign Launches in Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh and New York, USA) - World No Tobacco Day marks the launch of the first national tobacco control mass media campaign in Bangladesh. The campaign, developed by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare with support from World Lung Foundation, Bangladesh Center for... World Lung Foundation more...
May 4, 2011 Countdown to the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases Highlights from the Moscow Ministerial Meeting on NCDs, April 28-29, 2011 More than 90 Ministers of Health from as many countries convened in Moscow last week to draft guidelines on reducing the toll from NCDs. The conference was co-hosted by the World Health Organization... World Lung Foundation more...
May 3, 2011 "Too Graphic for TV”: Innovative new-media campaign shows the harms of chewing tobacco to millions of Indians This week, more than two million Indians received an SMS warning about the dangers of chewing tobacco, urging them to take action against the epidemic. Hundreds of thousands more will see ads on social-networking sites, driving them to a two-minute web video with images that were... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 25, 2011 WLF Urges Health Ministries to Implement Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce NCD Deaths Commends Russian Government for Hosting Vital Global NCD Meeting and Increasing Its Own Commitment to Tobacco Control (Moscow, Russia and New York, United States) - World Lung Foundation today urged health ministers attending a critical meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs)... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 25, 2011 Bloomberg Philanthropies Applauds China's New Smoke-free Initiative David Gray/Reuters More than 100,000 Chinese will die this year from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS). Many millions more will suffer adverse health effects from toxic SHS, with symptoms ranging from asthma attacks in adults to ear infections in children. Now,... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 21, 2011 Innovative Health Campaign in India Uses “Too Graphic for TV” Images to Highlight Health Risks of Chewing Tobacco ChewOnThis.in Integrates Mobile and Social Media and Ringtones for Viral Impact (Delhi, India and New York, United States) - A group of health organizations including government, local, national and international NGOs such as Tata Memorial Hospital, World Lung Foundation, Indian... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 12, 2011 WLF Hails New Report on Tackling the Global Crisis of Non-Communicable Diseases Calls for governments to accelerate implementation of tobacco control measures as a quick, cost-effective way to reduce global death and disease (New York, United States) - World Lung Foundation has welcomed the release of a new research paper published in The Lancet. The paper,... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 24, 2011 New Report From World Lung Foundation Reveals Inextricable Links Between Tobacco and Tuberculosis (March 24, 2011, New York, NY) – Coinciding with World TB Day, World Lung Foundation today issued a white paper exploring the links between tuberculosis and tobacco use. The paper, entitled “Directions: The Deadly Pairing of Tuberculosis and Smoking,” is a meta-study of research from... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 9, 2011 WLF Urges UK Government to Ban Display Advertising and Branding on Tobacco Products (London, United Kingdom, and New York, United States) - On UK No Smoking Day World Lung Foundation called on the British Government to progress its plans to ban in-store cigarette display advertising and also to ban all branding on cigarette packets, without delay. A ban on display... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 4, 2011 Anti-Corruption and Anti-Smoking: Hand-in-Hand in Tahrir Square The January 25th revolution of Egyptian youth in Tahrir Square demanded a number of political, social and economic reforms. It clearly reflected young people’s quest for revival and prosperity, and improvement of their country at all levels. On February 6th, the Al Masry Al Youm... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 23, 2011 Meeting Tobacco Control Allies in Tabasco and Mexico City Meeting with Tabasco Governor Aside from the grasshoppers and worms I ate on the last day, this latest trip to Mexico was a treat. I joined colleagues from Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids , Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health , Pan-American Health... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 14, 2011 Long Overdue: Graphic Pack Warning Labels for Cigarettes in the United States You can view all of the images that are being considered for pack warnings on U.S. cigarettes at FDA Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels For the first time since the U.S. Surgeon General declared cigarettes harmful to health in 1964, warning labels on American cigarette packs... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 5, 2011 Tamil Nadu Government Launches New Campaign to Protect Citizens from Exposure to Secondhand Smoke (Chennai, India and New York, United States) - The Smokefree Chennai project of the Tamil Nadu Government today launched a new mass media campaign to inform millions of Tamilian smokers about the serious effects tobacco has on their health and the health of their children. The statewide... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 3, 2011 WLF Calls for Increased Funding of Cancer Prevention Through Tobacco Control (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation today called on health care providers and governments to do more to prevent cancer, in terms of activity and spend. While important breakthroughs are being made in cancer diagnosis and treatment, low-cost prevention strategies like effective tobacco... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 26, 2011 WLF Notes with Interest President Kikwete’s Role in the United Nations Meeting in Geneva on Women’s and Children’s Health WLF Urges the President to Make This an Even Greater Public Health Priority in Tanzania to Reduce Maternal Deaths (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) - With the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal deaths falling far below the mark in Tanzania and other African... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 26, 2011 When the Home Fires Burn: The Neglected Epidemic of Lung Disease in Women and Children World Lung Foundation's policy paper series on lung health issues. “Directions” white papers are conceived by WLF Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Neil Schluger and written by Karyn Feiden. Neil W. Schluger, M.D. Chief Scientific Officer, World Lung Foundation, and Professor of... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 20, 2011 WLF Convenes Maternal Health Summit in Tanzania Minister of Health, Donors and Field Staff Discuss Progress and Future Action to Reduce Maternal Deaths Download press release in Swahili (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) - World Lung Foundation convened its first-ever Maternal Health Summit in Tanzania to bring together international... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 17, 2011 Ad Campaign Graphically Depicts Harms of Smokeless Tobacco, A Leading Killer in India (New York and Delhi, India) - The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India today launched an intensely graphic campaign to reduce illness and deaths from smokeless tobacco, which is used by tens of millions of Indians every day. The ad, called “Mukesh,” was developed by the... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 5, 2011 China Falls Short in its Tobacco Control Obligations (New York, New York) -World Lung Foundation commented on the status of Chinese tobacco control as the deadline passed for implementing certain policy measures required under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty China ratified in 2005 and that came into force in 2006. China is... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 17, 2010 Thoughts on a First CoP As delegates from 140 countries gathered in beautiful Punta del Este, Uruguay, a newbie to the process, Rebecca Perl, gathered her own impressions about the fourth bi-annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty. First... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 14, 2010 Turkish "Sponge" leaves hotline busy signals Leveraging a unique law that allows for free prime-time advertising for anti-tobacco ads, Turkey has adapted and launched the hard-hitting "Sponge" campaign, originally produced by the Cancer Institute New South Wales in Australia. The campaign, on both radio and television, is the first... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 9, 2010 New Rapid Testing Technology Requires Training and a Transition Plan to Truly Advance the Fight Against Tuberculosis (New York, New York) -World Lung Foundation today welcomed the World Health Organization's endorsement of new automated testing that promises to improve diagnosis of the disease, but cautioned that investment in such technology cannot succeed without parallel investment in health worker... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 30, 2010 Smoke-Free Alexandria The Egyptian Ministry of Health, in coordination with World Lung Foundation, has finished a two-stage "Smoke-Free Alexandria" media campaign, stretching a small campaign budget by using innovative tactics to attract additional media interest and attention. In order to avoid expensive... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 23, 2010 Travel Log: Tanzania, Mauritius, Bangladesh and India Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Arrived in Dar Es Salaam on a Saturday night and was met by my WLF colleagues at the airport. We made plans to get our team together the next day. Early Sunday morning, I went for a run alongside the beach in a light rain, in the wake of three young men... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 18, 2010 WLF Supports Uruguay's Efforts to Stop the Tobacco Industry from Undermining its Progressive Tobacco Control Policies (New York, New York) -Today World Lung Foundation joined the tobacco control community in supporting Uruguay's efforts to withstand legal challenges by Philip Morris International against its strong cigarette pack warning laws. Uruguay requires that 80 percent of the front and back of... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 9, 2010 WLF Urges Immediate Action in Russia to Reduce Tobacco Use Following Release of New Survey Data (New York, United States and Moscow, Russia) -World Lung Foundation today welcomed the release of new tobacco use survey data from the Russian government and urged immediate action to reduce demand for tobacco. The Global Survey of Adult Tobacco Use (GATS) is a rigorous population-based... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 4, 2010 WLF Welcomes Use of CT Scans to Detect Lung Cancer in Smokers (New York, NY) -World Lung Foundation today released the following statement on the results of a National Cancer Institute research into the use of CT scans to detect lung cancer in smokers. Peter Baldini, Chief Executive Officer and President of World Lung Foundation, said: "The... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 2, 2010 Incredible Istanbul: City offers the perfect smoke-free backdrop for WLF media workshop Turkey is an extraordinary place when measured by several yardsticks; its blend of old and new cultures, its standing as a bridge between East and West; and even its efficiency—considering its size (Istanbul alone is 20 million by some estimates). Last but not least, Turkey is... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 27, 2010 New Data from Viet Nam Critical to Reducing Death Toll of Tobacco Use Download Vietnamese Press Release (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation today congratulated the government of Viet Nam on the completion and release of a major new survey results about tobacco use. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is conducted to a rigorous global standard and... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 25, 2010 Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health Sydney, Australia After working with World Lung Foundation for almost three years, I've been to a fair number of global health conferences, and I've felt that I generally know what to expect at this point. But the APACT conference, held this October in Sydney, was a conference of firsts for me.... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 22, 2010 WLF Welcomes Release of New GATS Data from India (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation today welcomed the publication of Global Adult Tobacco Survey data in India. The survey is conducted to a rigorous global standard and tracks tobacco use, exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and tobacco control measures across a number of different... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 14, 2010 Better Implementation of Current TB Control Programs Would Reduce Drug-Resistant Strains (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation today commended the Stop TB Partnership's launch of the " Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015 ," but cautioned that the promise of breakthroughs in the near future should not delay individual countries from adopting current best practice in the fight against... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 13, 2010 Regular Lung Testing Critical to Preventing Death from Lung Disease (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation (WLF) released the following statement in support of the first-ever World Spirometry Day , a coordinated global effort to raise awareness of the need for regular lung testing: "It is predicted that in 2030 12.5 million deaths (17% of all deaths)... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 1, 2010 First Ever TV Campaign Launched to Support Graphic Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs in Mexico Download Spanish Press Release (New York, USA and Guadalajara, Mexico) - A new mass media campaign was launched today to encourage millions of Mexicans to stop smoking around their children. The campaign, called "Cigarettes are Eating Your Baby Alive," graphically shows that children... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 30, 2010 WLF Calls on International Music Acts to Reject Tobacco Industry Sponsorship of Indonesian Rock Festival (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation today added its voice to calls that international rock bands including The Smashing Pumpkins, Stereophonics and The Vines should not perform at the Java Rockin' Land festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, unless tobacco company sponsorship and associated... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 29, 2010
Register for "Introduction to Media Communications" Berlin - Friday November 12, 9AM-5PM Join us for a workshop on health media communications for lung health professionals at 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health Union . Led by WLF communications experts, learn basic media skills: working with reporters, managing a... World Lung Foundation more...
Sep 17, 2010 2010 World Cancer Congress in Shenzhen, China Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center As an international NGO and program collaborator, WLF attended the 2010 World Cancer Congress held during Aug 18-21, 2010 in Shenzhen, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It was the first time that the World Cancer Congress... World Lung Foundation more...
Jul 27, 2010 Sunday in Tanzania Two women visiting family members in the maternity ward, coming to cook and provide emotional support. On Sunday at 7 AM, our World Lung Foundation team of Peter Baldini, Jack Salvo, Carl Mercer, Dismass Masumbukoo, our driver Filbert Kalilameso, and I climbed into a jeep provided by our... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 24, 2010 Smoke-free Alexandria, "effective immediately" Minister of Health Dr. El-Gabaly and General Adel Labib sign the declaration of Smoke-free Alexandria, while Dr. Sahar Labib, Director of the Tobacco Control Department, looks on. "This initiative needs supports from individuals and society, and is the first core and form of every... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 16, 2010 WLF Workshop in Bogotá, Colombia Attendees to the Bogotá, Colombia workshop, give their full attention to WLF trainer Jorge Alday. Jorge Alday and I, we leave our home cities, New York and Mexico, to go to Bogotá, Colombia. It would be our first time in Colombia, and that gave us a feeling of curiosity and... World Lung Foundation more...
May 26, 2010 WLF Commends Australian Gov't on Unprecedented Tobacco Control Policies (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation congratulates the Australian government on its announcement of a comprehensive package to combat smoking—including a 25% increase in the excise tax on tobacco products and the removal of promotional text, images and colors on all cigarette packs.... World Lung Foundation more...
May 20, 2010 Working Together for Tobacco Control in Vietnam WLF has worked throughout the past year and a half with local partners in Vietnam to develop a national mass media campaign. The goals were to increase the public's awareness about the harms of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke, and to generate support for national tobacco control... World Lung Foundation more...
May 19, 2010 WLF Brings Communications Course to Singapore It took 24 hours to get from New York, where I live, to Singapore. Not the easiest trip, to say the least. It was a long time to remain in the same position, but the people in the plane were very nice and polite, and I had the feeling I was going to a fine place. At the beginning of... World Lung Foundation more...
May 5, 2010 New Survey Shows 77% of Vietnamese Oppose Secondhand Smoke in Public Places after Seeing Ad Download Vietnamese Press Release (New York, NY and Hanoi, Vietnam) - – Vietnam's Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) and World Lung Foundation (WLF) announced today the results of a national mass media campaign to build support for the ban on smoking in... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 22, 2010 Tanzania - Expanding Critical Health Services for Women and Children The core aspect of the WLF program in Tanzania is to decrease maternal and infant mortality through targeted enhancements of emergency obstetric care in rural health centers. Specifically, the WLF program is funding the renovation and construction of key infrastructure; building the... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 7, 2010 Run, WLF, Run! After a family dinner one night late last year, my husband asked if anyone wanted to run with him in the NYC Half Marathon, as part of the World Lung Foundation team. World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 29, 2010 Craig David, Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis Craig David with WLF board member Dr. Marcos Espinal at Stop TB event. On World TB day, I attended a celebration with Craig David, the British R&B singer. He is serving as a Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis. The event was held at a gallery in the West Village of... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 19, 2010 The Disturbing Paradox of Tuberculosis By Neil W. Schluger, M.D. Chief Scientific Officer, World Lung Foundation, and Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Recently, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in research projects to develop new drugs, diagnostics... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 12, 2010 Moscow Sponge Winter Campaign When I arrived in bright, cold, snowy, mid-February Moscow for a series of meetings with Russian partners, I was happy and shocked to see that the LED poster images from the "Sponge" tobacco control mass media campaign were still up in the metro. World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 9, 2010 Spring Festival Gift-Giving in China 2010 marks the second year that WLF will be supporting a campaign in China to discourage against the practice of giving cigarettes as gifts. With the Chinese New Year holiday fast approaching, gift giving is at its peak. Working with WHO, China CDC, and other local partners, the campaign... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 8, 2010 Enhancing Maternal Health in Tanzania For the last year WLF has been working with the Ifakara Health Research and Development Center to improve access to maternal and neonatal health care in Tanzania. By enhancing the capacity of healthcare providers with life saving skills and equipment, the program aims to decrease maternal... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 4, 2010 World Cancer Day (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation (WLF) released the following statement on World Cancer Day, 2010: "Lung cancer is the most preventable form of cancer," said Dr. Neil Schluger, Chief Scientific Officer, World Lung Foundation. "According to the World Health... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 15, 2010 Haiti Earthquake Relief WLF CEO Peter Baldini shares some distaster relief organizations for donations to Hairi in the wake of the devestating earthquake. World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 13, 2010 Media Communications Workshop in Singapore Twas the week before Christmas when 26 public health practitioners from 15 countries gathered in Singapore for an introduction to mass media and communications. The five-day workshop was designed and taught by WLF and the Union as part of The Union's International Management Development... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 11, 2010 The Two Worlds of Dr. E. Jane Carter, WLF Board Member In December 2009 at the World Lung Conference in Mexico, Dr. Carter spoke to WLF about her commitment to... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 8, 2010 WLF Impact: WLF at the Union's World Lung Conference Untitled Document .headerTop {background-color:#ececec;border-top:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:1px solid #FFFFFF;text-align:center; } .adminText { font-size:10px;color:#757575;line-height:200%;font-family:verdana;text-decoration:none; } .headerBar { background-color:#FFFFFF;... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 18, 2009 Vietnam Ministry of Health and World Lung Foundation Launch Mass Media Campaign to Support Smoke-Free Vietnam Download Vietnamese Press Release (New York, NY and Hanoi, Vietnam) - Vietnam's Ministry of Health launched a new mass media campaign to support Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's Decision 1315, dated 21st August 2009, which mandates smoke-free public places across Vietnam. The campaign,... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 16, 2009 Jane Carter Interview At the 2009 World Lung Conference in Mexico, Dr. Carter spoke to WLF about her commitment to international lung... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 15, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Poverty and Lung Health: 40th World Lung Conference in Cancún, Mexico The WLF conference booth WLF Communications Officer Mohamed El-Ghamrawy presents a cigarette pack warnings campaign in Egypt. Board member Marc Snazjderman (left) and Special Projects Manager Rebecca Perl (center) meet the recipients of WLF's New York City Half-Marathon... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 14, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Thanksgiving in Hanoi Editing ads in the production studio Tom (center) with in-country partners, at WHO's Vietnam headquarters Vietnamese pho noodles for Thanksgiving Hanoi's Temple of Literature is smoke-free WLF has been working all year with partners in Vietnam to develop a... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 9, 2009 Most Governments Fail to Protect Their Citizens from Tobacco Harms (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation (WLF) released the following statement on the release of the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic , 2009: "The WHO report demonstrates clearly that most governments have failed to address tobacco as a public health crisis," said Peter Baldini,... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 1, 2009 Integrating HIV Treatment with Prevention and Treatment for Lung Diseases Could Save Millions of Lives (New York, NY) - On World AIDS Day, World Lung Foundation (WLF) urged governments and the global health community to take steps toward more systematic integration of the treatment and care for lung disease among patients with HIV/AIDS: Neil Schluger, Chief Scientific Officer at WLF said,... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 1, 2009 WLF Accomplishments Untitled Document .iconspan{ float: right; margin: 3px; cursor:hand; cursor:pointer; font-weight: bold; } .eg-bar{ background-color: #d8edf6; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid white; padding: 3px; } div.eg-bar{ width: 600px; } .icongroup1{ width:... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 16, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Moscow Duma Launches "Sponge" Campaign TIrina Morozova, who works for World Lung Foundation as a Communications Officer, was on hand when the Moscow Duma launched the "Sponge" mass media campaign, which uses an ad that graphically warns about the dangers of smoking . The press launch of the campaign took place in the... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 9, 2009 New Graphic Ad Combats Smokeless Tobacco in India (Delhi, India) - The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare's (MOHFW) Tobacco Control Programme today announced the launch of a nationwide television and radio campaign called "Surgeon." The campaign features cancer patients at Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital's neck... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 27, 2009 Field Reports Blog: 3rd Cross-Strait Conference The WLF China team attended the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (HKCOSH)-hosted 3rd Cross-Strait Conference on Tobacco Control in Hong Kong last week. The theme of this year's two-day meeting was "Construct Smoke-free Society & Promote MPOWER." More than 200 tobacco... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 12, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Turkey Smoke-free Site Visit "In Turkey, Sylviane Ratte of the Union and I went to Izmir, Turkey's 3rd largest city of about 3.5 million, to visit with the local health directorate and find out about how Smoke-free was being implemented locally, and how tobacco control rated on the municipality's list of... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 2, 2009 Results for Tanzania Maternal Health Infrastructure Program WLF clinic in Tanzania World Lung Foundation more
Aug 2, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Judith Mackay at WPRO meeting Judith Mackay at WPRO meeting World Lung Foundation more
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