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The Partnership for Healthy Cities presents news, stories, case studies and accomplishments from cities in its global network, whose leaders have taken on the role of urban health champions.
Inside Freetown, Sierra Leone's markets, a new healthy food strategy is addressing rising rates of hypertension.
Africa.com: The leaders of four West African cities released a statement calling for easier access to healthier food in public institutions across African urban centers.
Read about more about urban centers preventing disease and injury through public health policy change at the local level.
Code Blue: The Partnership for Healthy Cities is working with Kuala Lumpur to explore a ban on display of cigarettes and tobacco products.
Inside Freetown, Sierra Leone's markets, a new healthy food strategy is addressing rising rates of hypertension and other noncommunicable diseases.
Devex: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Vital Strategies, and the World Health Organization brought local government workers from 52 cities together to share their success and failure stories around reducing noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
The Guardian: At the Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, Luyanda Majija, Associate Director, Communications, Food Policy Program at Vital Strategies, spoke to The Guardian about how governments must push back against beverage industry attempts to lower taxes.
Inquirer: Quezon City became the first urban center within Southeast Asia to pass a calorie labelling ordinance that requires restaurant chains and other food establishments to include nutritional information, including calories, on their menus.
Highlights from the 2024 Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in Cape Town, South Africa
New Vision: A total of 33% of deaths annually in Uganda are due to NCDs, according to the World Health Organization, and for every Ugandan, the probability of dying prematurely from one of the four main NCDs is 22%.