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PHF is honoured with the 2026 WNTD Award from WHO, 19 May 2026
World No Tobacco Day 2026 awards – meet the winners 19 May 2026 Departmental update Geneva Each year, WHO honours individuals and organizations from each…
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World No-Tobacco Day 2025
၂၀၂၅-ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာ့ဆေးလိပ်မသောက်ရေးနေ့(ကမ္ဘာ့ဆေးရွက်ကြီးမသုံးစွဲသောနေ့) ကမ္ဘာ့ကျန်းမာရေးအဖွဲ့က ဆေးလိပ်နှင့်ဆေးရွက်ကြီးသုံးစွဲမှုကြောင့် ကျန်းမာရေး ကို ထိခိုက်စေ သည့်အပြင်ရောဂါမျိုးစုံခံစားရရှိပြီး အသက်ပါဆုံးရှုံးကြရခြင်း အား အများ ပြည်သူလူထုအပေါင်းကို သတိ ပေးလိုသည့် အတွက် နှစ်စဉ် မေလ (၃၁) ရက်နေ့ ကို “ကမ္ဘာ့ ဆေးလိပ်မသောက်ရေးနေ့” “World No-Tobacco Day”…
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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2025, warning about the dangers of the tobacco
June 2025: The 10th WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic tracks the progress made by countries in tobacco control since 2008. The MPOWER technical…
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World Health Day 2024 Magazine
August 2024: World No-Tobacco Day 2024 Magazine World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a year-long global campaign for the World No Tobacco Day 2024 (WNTD…
International News
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20 years since the WHO FCTC, ASEAN still dragging its feet on saving lives from tobacco
5 November 2025, Bangkok: Two decades after world governments agreed to a global health treaty to end the tobacco pandemic, more than half a million…
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Tobacco industry’s policy interference on the rise: Report
30 October 2025 By Joseph Choi – The Hill The tobacco industry’s influence on public health policymaking in the U.S. is growing, according to the…
Events
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WNTD 2024: Protecting Children from Tobacco Industry Interference
27 May 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO), has officially launched the “Stop the lies” campaign as a vital initiative to protect young people from the tobacco industry and their…
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WNTD2021 Celebration: Article and Poem Competitions, September 2021
September 23, 2021: People’s Health Foundation is happy to announce Winners of WNTD2021 Article and Poem Competitions as follows: Winners have been notified and requested to contact People’s Health Foundation,…
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More Focus on COVID-19 Prevention
More focus on COVID-19 prevention May 3, 2021; Yangon; PHF: Even though the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be on the back foot in a number of countries around the world…
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World No-Tobacco Day 2021 Celebration: Call for competition for Articles and Poems
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2021 this year will be celebrated as a year-long national campaign. People’s Health Foundation has call for submissions of articles and poems on the theme…
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Tobacco and Youth: Manipulation of Tobacco Industries
30 December 2020, Yangon, PHF: Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced…
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‘Let’s Beat COVID Together’ Public media campaign, October, 2020
31 October 2020, Yangon: PHF has launched again “Let’s beat COVID together” public media campaign for second wave of COVID-19 Outbreak in Myanmar. PHF has aired short video messages on…
Awards
Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) has given, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of SEATCA, the “Champion of SEATCA Award”, to the People’s Health Foundation (PHF), Myanmar and Dr U Than Sein (President of PHF) for outstanding contribution to SEATCA, as a catalyst for change in the fight to end the Tobacco Pandemic, on 2 December 2021.
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