The WHO Initiative on E-waste and Child Health, launched in 2013, aims to increase access to evidence, knowledge and awareness of the health impacts of e-waste; improve health sector capacity to manage and prevent risks, track progress and promote e-waste policies that better protect child health; and improve monitoring of exposure to e-waste and the facilitation of interventions that protect public health.
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提高卫生部门的能力以管理和预防风险，跟踪进展情况并促进能更好地保护儿童健康的电子废物政策；
WHO is a member of the E-Waste Coalition, a group of 10 UN agencies and international organizations who have come together to increase collaboration, build partnerships and more efficiently provide support to Member States to address the e-waste challenge.
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改善对电子废物暴露情况的监测，并进一步协助采取保护公众健康的干预措施。
At the local level, WHO is helping to develop frameworks to protect children from e-waste exposure.
The pilot projects aim to promote local advocacy and collaborate with communities, build the capacity of primary health systems to address risks by monitoring e-waste exposure and measuring the success of interventions.
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在地方一级，世卫组织正在帮助制定框架，以防止儿童暴露于电子废物。
These projects are designing frameworks that can be adapted and replicated in different countries and settings and are currently being run in the African Region and the Region of the Americas.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries were making steady progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB), with a 9% reduction in incidence seen between 2015 and 2019 and a 14% drop in deaths in the same period.