Resolve to Save Lives at CARDIOBASE 2024
The RTSL India team, including Dr. Amit, Dr. Manika, and Dr. Swati, recently joined a panel discussion on ‘Unhealthy Diets and Cardiovascular Disease’ at CARDIOBASE 2024, moderated by Dr. Murugunathan. They discussed RTSL’s work on promoting cardiovascular health globally and in India, emphasizing the importance of salt reduction, trans fat elimination, and healthier oil adoption. […]
New policies in Nigeria will help save lives from heart disease
In partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare unveiled a bold new strategy to strengthen collaboration toward preventing premature deaths from heart disease and other non-communicable diseases, which currently account for 27% of all deaths in Nigeria—close to 447,800 lives every year. Government officials, health care professionals, researchers, […]
REPLACE Initiative’s role in ending trans fat
In a new article for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, experts from Resolve to Save Lives, World Health Organization, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, and NCD Alliance describe global progress and efforts to eliminate trans fat from the food supply. Since the formation of the global partnership and launch of REPLACE, 43 countries […]
New oped on global progress eliminating trans fat
The world has made encouraging progress to eliminate trans fat, but more than 4 billion people remain at risk. In a new oped published in BMJ and Al Jazeera, Dr. Tom Frieden, president & CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of World Health Organization, share how countries can join the movement to protect […]
New milestone report on global trans fat elimination
World Health Organization’s (WHO) new milestone report summarizes progress over the past 5 years towards the global elimination of industrially produced trans-fatty acids (TFA). In 2018, WHO set the ambitious target to eliminate TFA from the global food supply by the end of 2023, and released the REPLACE action framework with recommended best-practice policies and implementation […]
Milestone 5-year report on progress to eliminate toxic trans fat released
Statement from Dr. Tom Frieden, President & CEO, Resolve to Save Lives 24 JUNE 2024 (NEW YORK, USA)—“At the start of 2024, 53 countries had introduced trans fat regulations, protecting nearly half of the world’s population from this toxic chemical and preventing as many as 183,000 deaths each year. The new 5-year REPLACE report released […]