UNEP Projects
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Phasing-down the Use of Dental Amalgam project launched in March 2023.
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Eliminating Mercury Skin Lightening Products project launched in February 2023.
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In 2014, USEPA supported 2 projects: Phase-out of Mercury Fever Thermometers and Blood Pressure Devices in Healthcare in Brazil and South-Africa, and Reducing demand of mercury containing products in Bangladesh
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Replacing mercury-added products and promoting improved management of mercury-added products waste in Africa
Madagascar and Burkina Faso - 2014 - 2015 -
East Africa Dental Amalgam Phase-down (EADAP)
, EADAP Phase I - 2012 - 2013
EADAP Phase II - 2015
Country Reports
- Asia Regional conference on mercury free health care, Manilla, March 2011
- Brazil - Eliminating Mercury-Containing Measuring Instruments from Service Stations
- Brazil - Hospitals of the city hall of Sao Paulo health public network and the replacement of all mercury devices, 2009
- Brazil - Initiatives in the Health Care Sector
- Brazil - activities on mercury light bulbs
- Brazil - Status update of mercury devices substitution in the Health Sector in Sao Paulo, February 2009
- Brazil - Progress at replacing mercury equipment in the health sector in Sao Paulo, 2008
- Cameroon - A preliminary inventory of pollutants from exhausted portable batteries from uncontrolled dumping in Yaounde
- Canada - Health Canada and FDI Use of Dental Amalgam
- Chile - Ministry of Health Issues National Guidance for Mercury Free Health Care
- Chile - National Program for the Integral Management of Mercury
- China - Economics of Conversion to Mercury-Free Medical Devices
- China - Market research report on Chinese mercury-free thermometers and sphygmomanometers
- Mexico - Sequential Chemical Speciation of Mercury in Contaminated Sites
- Mongolia - National Policy to Ban Mercury Medical Devices
- Philippines - Gradual Phase-out of Mercury in all Philippine Health Care Facilities and Institutions
- Norway - Norwegian experiences on phasing out of dental amalgam
- Sweden - Swedish experience using mercury-free blood pressure measurement equipment (7/05)
