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Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care
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January 19, 2013
Health Care Without Harm Press Release

World's Governments Agree to Mercury-Free Healthcare in 2020

The world’s governments have finalized text for a global legally binding treaty on mercury, the bio-accumulative heavy metal that is poisoning the world’s fish supply, threatening public health and the environment. Among other measures, the treaty text mandates an end to the manufacture, import and export of mercury thermometers and blood pressure devices (sphygmomanometers) by 2020. more 
 

U.S. and Canada

December 3, 2012
Health Care Without Harm Press Release

CleanMed Named Emerging Green Conference

CleanMed 2013 is pleased to announce that it has been chosen as the “Emerging Green Conference” by the Capital Chapter of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). more 

Europe

23 January 2013
HCWH-Europe Press Release

The European Parliament calls for better protection of human health from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)

Health Care Without Harm Europe welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution on the protection of public health from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) (1), adopted today by the Committee for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee). more 

Southeast Asia

2 October 2012
HCWH-Southeast Asia Press Release

Doctors, taking health care to new heights

“Doctors nowadays are healing patients beyond hospital premises and the usual stethoscope,” said Merci Ferrer, Director of Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA). “They are now looking at ten interconnected goals that complete the picture of a green and healthy health care.” more 

América Latina

19 de enero de 2013
Comunicado de prensa de Salud sin Daño

Gobiernos acuerdan la eliminación del mercurio en el sector del cuidado de la salud para el año 2020

El tratado, que fue aprobado en Ginebra durante el último período de sesiones del Comité Intergubernamental de Negociación del Tratado sobre Mercurio, será firmado por los gobiernos en octubre de este año. más 

Global Projects & Other Regions

January 18, 2013
Health Care Without Harm Press Release

HCWH Video Report from Mercury Treaty Negotiations

HCWH International Coordinator, Josh Karliner reports from the final round of mercury treaty negotiations in Geneva. more 
 
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Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda
Download Report:  Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda: A Comprehensive Environmental Health Agenda for Hospitals and Health Systems Around the World  (pdf)