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• Vaping Fad Boosts Dangerous Nicotine Addiction

  10 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Wan Manan Muda and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
  Smoking-related diseases are the major causes of premature death worldwide. Every year, six million smoking-related deaths are reported worldwide. If current smoking trends persist, 8 million deaths can be expected by 2030, of which four-fifths will occur in lower- and middle-income countries. (...)

• Fairer Fashion Begins with Better Access to Water & Toilets For Workers in Clothing Supply Chains

  10 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Ian Gavin
  Ian Gavin is WaterAid’s Regional Programme Manager, who attended last week’s Hong Kong Fashion Summit The post Fairer Fashion Begins with Better Access to Water & Toilets For Workers in Clothing Supply Chains appeared first on Inter Press (...)

• ‘Join Me on this Journey’ to Eliminate Leprosy – WHO Ambassador

  10 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Stella Paul
  YOHEI SASAKAWA, World Health Organization’s (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and chairperson of The Nippon Foundation, speaks to IPS correspondent Stella Paul about his decades long campaign to achieve zero leprosy and eliminate stigmatisation of those affected. The post ‘Join (...)

• Eritrea Tops Watchlist of World’s Most-Censored Countries

  10 de septiembre, puesto en línea por James Reinl
  Eritrea has the world’s highest levels of censorship and the most active government in jailing reporters and stifling newspapers, radio and television, a study by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) watchdog says. The authoritarian Horn of Africa nation, which shuttered all independent (...)

• Awareness Should be the Priority in Public Health Efforts against Leprosy

  9 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Ben Kritz
  Increasing awareness of the continuing existence of Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) is critical to sustaining effective public health efforts against the disease, eliminating the social stigma associated with it, and halting its transmission. That was the consensus reached by participants at the (...)

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