Health Care Without Harm: Leading the global movement for environmentally responsible health care
HCWH is engaged in a series of global initiatives, including collaboration with the WHO to subsitute mercury-based medical devices, and another to address the health sector's climate footprint. We are engaged in an eight country GEF project led by UNDP. We work with Strategic Partner organizations in areas where we have no office, and collaborate with our members around the world. more
HCWH News
December 5, 2011
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health leaders call for urgent action on climate
International health leaders in Durban for the global climate talks have called on negotiators to push for the most ambitious commitments possible, warning that the direction of current negotiations risks the lives of billions of people around the globe. moreNovember 3, 2011
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
Health Care Without Harm Press Release
HCWH Intervention at Mercury Treaty Negotiations
HCWH, represented by partner organizations from Mexico, India, Indonesia, South Africa and the United States, is participating in round three of the mercury treaty negotiations, currently underway in Nairobi, Kenya. moreEnvironmental Health News
January 17, 2012, The Tribune
Shun the use of mercury-based instruments, advocates PPCB
Excerpt: "The Punjab Pollution Control Board in association with the Indian Medical Association and Toxics Link, New Delhi, organised a workshop on the hazards of mercury at Dumra Auditorium, Dayanad Medical College here today. It stressed the need for replacing mercury-equipped instruments with aneroid-based instrument." moreNovember 15, 2011, New York Times
By Paul Vitello
By Paul Vitello
Dr. Paul Epstein, Climate and Health Leader, Is Dead at 67
Excerpt: "Dr. Paul Epstein, a public health expert who was among the first to warn of a link between the spread of infectious disease and extreme weather events, adding a new dimension to research into the potential impact of global climate change, died on Sunday at his home in Boston. He was 67." moreReports and Publications
October 22, 2011
WHO-HCWH Mercury-Free Update for INC3
WHO and HCWH have produced an update on the Global Mercury-Free Healthcare Initiative that charts progress toward the goal of virtual elimination and substitution of mercury thermometers and blood pressure devices around the world by 2017. moreJune 2, 2011
WHO Releases Technical Guidance on Substituting Mercury Thermometers and Sphygmomanometers
WHO has issued a Technical Guidance Document for the safe substitution of non-mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health-care settings. more
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