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„ Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use „If your product killed 8 million people each year, you’d also target a new generation“ This year the theme of World No Tobacco Day 2020 is protection of younger generations, protecting them from the campaigns of ...

„Stop the pandemic – Safety and health at work can save lives“ This year World Day for Safety and Health at Work focuses on infection diseases at work, particularly COVID-19 pandemic, that poses a great challenge for governments, employers, workers and the whole society. Due to the special circumstance related ...

In August 2019, Pretomanid, drug developed by the non-profit organization, TB Alliance, has received U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approval for treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or treatment-intolerant/non-responsive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in combination regimen with bedaquiline and linezolid. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is caused by an organism that is resistant to at ...

„Don’t let tobacco take your breath away“ The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided that the focus of this year World No Tobacco Day is tobacco and its influence on lung health. Although the adverse effects on lung due to tobacco are well known, these diseases are still the leading ...

This year World Day for Safety and Health at Work  shall begin celebrating a century since the International Labor Organization has been initiated and the achievments in safety and health at work during this period. On that occasion the publication has been released entitled “Safety and health at the heart ...

Association “Health Mission” participated in the Capacity building and advocacy workshop related to people centered TB care jointly organized by the TB Europe Coalition and European Respiratory Society in Zagreb, Croatia, 16-17 April 2019. The workshop gathered civil society organizations and health care professionals from across the Balkan region. The two-day ...

Each year, we remember World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to the society towards end TB as the global public health problem. TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer. Each ...

The Smoke Free Partnership (SFP) organized the Coalition Annual Meeting on December 12, 2018 in the premises of the Coalition in Brussels. The meeting was attended by representatives of organizations that are Coalition members from 20 European countries and the USA. The representative of the Health Mission, the only participant ...

Sharp increase in tobacco use among high school students caused a great concern in the United States threatening to erase decades of progress in tobacco control. For this increase in tobacco use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) vaping has been blamed, particularly Juul, a commercial product that is mostly sold in the ...