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This powerful campaign, supported by Vital Strategies, features a public service announcement (PSA) called “Child” that graphically illustrates the harm smoking causes to smokers and the impact it has on their loved ones, particularly children.

The global battle against TB and MDR-TB is happening on a number of fronts, from efforts to increase access to vaccinations, to the development of faster diagnostic tests and treatments.

According to WHO, more than 300,000 women (830 every day) die every year in pregnancy and childbirth, over 99 percent of them in low and middle income countries. Unfortunately, this burden of death is only part of the picture.

Global public health experts Vital Strategies today joined global calls to strengthen initiatives to prevent diabetes and deliver better care for sufferers, as part of World Health Day.

To coincide with World TB Day, Vital Strategies calls on government leaders, development organizations, health workers, scientists and advocates to unite to end TB.

35 million deaths each year - 65% of all deaths worldwide - will go unrecorded. Vital Strategies is partnering with the Bloomberg Data For Health Initiative for an ambitious 4-year initiative to pave the way for a world where every life is counted.

Md. Shafiqul Islam, Bangladesh Country Advisor for Vital Strategies, writes about the importances of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh in The Daily Star

Dr. Nandita Murukutla writes an Op-Ed in Mid-Day about how large graphic health warnings on tobacco products are urgently needed to ensure India reaches its full economic potential.

In Ethiopia, a silent epidemic has been taking lives for centuries. This country of over 90 million people bears an enormous burden from tuberculosis and lung disease on the African continent.

Vital Strategies today joined the #PledgeforParity campaign, launched to mark International Women’s Day, but warned that public health issues are contributing to delays in progress toward gender parity.