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Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
The Global Campaign for Violence Prevention was launched following the release of the World report on violence and health, in October, 2002. The objectives of the campaign are to raise awareness about the problem of violence, highlight the crucial role that public health can play in addressing its causes and consequences and encourage action at every level of society. The Campaign serves as the main platform for implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health.
As of January 2007 three out of six WHO regional committees (Africa, the Americas and Europe) have adopted violence prevention resolutions; there are over 100 officially appointed health ministry focal persons for the prevention of violence; over 50 countries have had national launches of the World report on violence and health, and over 25 countries have developed reports and/or plans of action on violence and health. At the programme level, tens of thousands of people in scores of countries have been touched by violence prevention programmes and victim services established in response to the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. Advocacy, normative guidance and the planting of programme seeds in many countries must now give way to scaled-up country-level implementation accompanied by a concerted effort to measure effectiveness using the outcomes that really matter - such as rates for violence-related deaths, non-fatal injuries and other violence-related health conditions.
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