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		<title>Trinidad and Tobago Takes the Caribbean Lead in Tobacco Control</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/trinidad-and-tobago-takes-the-caribbean-lead-in-tobacco-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/trinidad-and-tobago-takes-the-caribbean-lead-in-tobacco-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising/Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amusement parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bingo halls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinemas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concert halls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental tobacco smoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health warnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mail order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playgrounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pool halls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secondhand smoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping malls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sponsorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports facilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tamper-proof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinidad and Tobago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vending machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplaces]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s Health Minister presented a pretty tough tobacco control bill in Parliament the other day, and seems confident it will emerge as a law in just a few months with little watering down.  It appears that Trinidad and Tobago will take the lead in CARICOM&#8217;s recent pledge to ban smoking in public places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s Surprising New Tobacco Control Law</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/colombias-surprising-new-tobacco-control-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/colombias-surprising-new-tobacco-control-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising/Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afiches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alquitrán]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon monoxide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carteles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[casinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centros comerciales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cibercafés]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinemas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compact discs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[control de tabaco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber-cafes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discotecas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discotheques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dulces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empaquetado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estadios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquetado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explosives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health warnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoteles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juguetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[museums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicotina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pancartas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[periodicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pictogramas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public service messages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service stations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping malls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoking ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sponsorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sporting events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stadiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vallas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vending machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Colombia has just passed a law on tobacco that is, well, surpising, given the language of the original bill and how strongly the industry lobby fought against against any amendments to toughen it.
Among other things, the new law:

bans sales to minors of any tobacco product, and requires vendors to check for proof of age;
bans placement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutrition Labeling for Airline Food in Brazil?</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/nutrition-labeling-for-airline-food-in-brazil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/nutrition-labeling-for-airline-food-in-brazil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food/Beverage Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aeronaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alimentos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anvisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviões]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azul Linhas Aéreas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbohydrates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carboidratos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celiac disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[companhias aéreas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glúten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gorduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministério Público Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MPF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition labeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceanair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proteínas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puma Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rotulagem nutricional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rótulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sódio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sodium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transporte aéreo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valor energético]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webjet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s Federal Public Ministry (MPF) has &#8220;recommended&#8221; to all Brazilian airline companies* to comply with Law 10.674 (requiring consumers to be informed whether foods contain gluten or not) and existing National Sanitary Vigilance Agency (Anvisa) regulations on nutrition labeling (Resolutions RDC 359/03 and 360/03) within the next 30 days.  The Anvisa regulations impose mandatory nutrition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Initiative on Chagas / Nova iniciativa sobre Doença de Chagas</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/a-new-initiative-on-chagas-nova-iniciativa-sobre-doenca-de-chagas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/a-new-initiative-on-chagas-nova-iniciativa-sobre-doenca-de-chagas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benznidazole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Pécoul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chagas disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNDi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doença de Chagas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doenças negligenciadas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiocruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infectious diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Médecins sans Frontières]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicamentos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neglected diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nifurtimox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salud pública]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi):
Forgotten and with few treatment options, Chagas debilitates and kills

100 years since Chagas disease was discovered, DNDi launches an international campaign “Wake Up. Time to Treat Chagas Disease!” with a call for better medicines and treatment of patients.

One hundred years after the discovery of Chagas disease, 100 million people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Network to Combat Noncommunicable Diseases</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/a-new-network-to-combat-noncommunicable-diseases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/a-new-network-to-combat-noncommunicable-diseases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco Mundial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECOSOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Diabetes Federation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MDGs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCDnet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-communicable diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respiratory diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salud pública]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strokes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Economic Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heart Federation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the World Health Organization (WHO):
New network to combat noncommunicable diseases
Noncommunicable diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, cancers, diabetes, respiratory diseases and common injuries account for the vast majority of all global deaths, but because they are not yet included as priorities in the global development agenda, donors and international organizations have yet to pledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Loan to Improve Colombia&#8217;s Water and Sanitation Services</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/water-issues/a-loan-to-improve-colombias-water-and-sanitation-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/water-issues/a-loan-to-improve-colombias-water-and-sanitation-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agua potable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potable water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saneamiento]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=5286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Colombia will improve its water and sanitation services with assistance from the IDB

Program will help to reduce costs and expand service in poor areas

The Inter-American Development Bank will support Colombian government efforts to improve water and sanitation services, reduce costs and rates, and expanding coverage, particularly to poor, underserved districts.
These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDB Supports LAC Efforts to Combat A(H1N1) / BID apoya esfuerzas de ALC combatir el gripe A(H1N1) / BID apoia ALC combatir a influenza A(H1N1)</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/idb-supports-lac-efforts-to-combat-ah1n1-bid-apoya-esfuerzas-de-alc-combatir-el-gripe-ah1n1-bid-apoia-alc-combatir-a-influenza-ah1n1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A(H1N1) influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[América Central]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease surveillance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesoamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salud pública]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saúde pública]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vigilancia sanitaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=4895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB provides support for prevention and control of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic in Latin America, Caribbean

Japan top donor in Bank’s contribution to project aimed at strengthening disease surveillance and improving response to public health emergencies, to focus initially in Central America

The Inter-American Development Bank approved today a $5 million grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Largest Basin Clean-up Loan in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/water-issues/the-largest-basin-clean-up-loan-in-latin-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/water-issues/the-largest-basin-clean-up-loan-in-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACUMAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco Mundial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaner production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matanza-Riachuelo Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[producción más limpia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saneamiento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sewage treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tratamiento de aguas residuales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the World Bank:
World Bank: Approves Largest Sanitation Operation in Latin America for US$840 Million to Clean the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin in Argentina
The Board of Directors of the World Bank today approved a loan for US$840 million in support of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sustainable Development project. The loan will support the government’s Integrated Basin Cleanup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World No Tobacco Day 09: Mexico Issues Regulation</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/tobacco-control/world-no-tobacco-day-09-mexico-issues-regulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/tobacco-control/world-no-tobacco-day-09-mexico-issues-regulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertencias sanitarias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cáncer pulmonar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiopatías isquémicas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controle do tabaco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Día Mundial sin Tabaco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health warnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ischemic heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[José Ángel Córdova Villalobos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAHO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did Mexico&#8217;s Health Secretary José Ángel Córdova Villalobos commemorate World No-Tobacco Day in 2009?  He issued the implementing regulation for the 2008 General Law on Tobacco Control (LGCT).  Among other things, the regulation covers the architectural design of nonsmoking areas, the ban on sales of tobacco products to minors, and the presence of health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World No Tobacco Day 09: CARICOM Agrees to Ban Smoking in Public Spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 15:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat:
CARICOM HEALTH MINISTERS AGREE TO CURB SMOKING IN PUBLIC SPACES
The Caucus of Ministers of Health have endorsed a recommendation for the banning of smoking on public spaces as a public good and regional goal, as the Region intensifies its efforts to tackle Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), under the Port of Spain [...]]]></description>
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