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 Aiming
for Prevention
Spring 2006 participation in activities
and events in Africa
Aiming for Prevention affiliates have been traveling
the globe recently to bring our message to the health community, the public and
policy makers that gun violence is bad for health, and to press for public policy
changes to address this international health crisis.
Nineteen affiliate
member physicians and medical students from eleven countries participated in three
important events in March and April of 2006. We had a strong presence at the 8th
World Injury Conference "Data to Action", the major international
public health conference on injury prevention, and co-sponsored and participated
in planning for its pre-conference
"Driving Change: Firearms Policy for Safer Societies" in South
Africa in April. We also planned and conducted a March
training program in Nairobi, Kenya for physicians from five African countries
who are participating in an IPPNW-sponsored multinational hospital-based research
pilot study on injury due to firearm violence.
Our Public Health Network
medical Director Robert Mtonga MD from Zambia also participated in a meeting convened
by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs just prior to these events, that
focused on small arms and development, in preparation for the UN Programme of
Action (UNPoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons Review Conference upcoming in June/July
in New York City, at which Aiming for Prevention
will again have a presence to bring the health message to this important international
body. For event and conference highlights, photos, and
reports, please click: For
more information on IPPNW's Aiming for Prevention campaign, contact coordinator
Maria Valenti in the IPPNW Central Office
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. posted April 28, 2006 
IPPNW's "Aiming for Prevention" program is currently supported
by grants from the Human Security Program at Foreign Affairs Canada. |
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