Promoting Alternatives to Mercury in Health Care" - 
raising awareness and facilitating change

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has invited the United Nations Environment Programme to join in a partnership with HCWH and others to promote alternatives to mercury in the health care sector in developing countries.  The partnership includes organizing four regional workshops aiming to raise awareness and promote change, facilitating the formation of national and/or regional working groups to build capacity and develop strategies to substantially reduce and ultimately eliminate mercury use from the health care sector, encouraging the launch of mercury-free health care pledges for specific hospitals and clinics and producing and publishing a final report based on these activities.

More information on the planned activities can be found on HCWH's "Mercury Free Health Care" webpage.