WLF provides financial and technical assistance to governments and non-government organizations in four priority areas: Health Communications and Information, Capacity Building, Project Management, and Operational Research.
WLF Projects WLF supports include: Research Public health policy Capacity building Public health education New York City Beijing, Dar Es Salaam, Delhi, The Hague, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Moscow, Paris, Sydney, Egypt Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
WLF disbursed millions from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), the World Health Organization, the Framework Convention Alliance, and the CDC Foundation to strengthen their tobacco control activities and to support its own mass media programs.
With financial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, WLF has implemented an emergency maternal health obstetrics program in the Kigoma, Morogoro, and Pwani provinces of Tanzania.
The program has trained 50 non-physician clinicians to deliver babies via cesarian section if needed, and midwives to assist in obstetrics care.
The facility provides treatment, research, training and a steady supply of medications to combat Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) in the Philippines and across Asia.
World Lung Foundation offers multimedia resources online to assist low and middle income countries interested in creating their own cessation and smoke-free ad campaigns.
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Linking mass media campaigns to pictorial warning labels on cigarette packages: An evaluation of impacts among Mexican smokers.