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T1 Health Care Without Harm: Phase-out of Mercury Fever Thermometers and Blood Pressure Devices in Health Care in Brazil and South Africa – Final Report
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 World Health Organization, 
A1 Global Mercury Partnership, 
A1 Health Care Without Harm, 
K1 mercury
K1 health
K1 blood pressure
K1 health care
K1 public health
K1 mercury contamination
K1 thermometer
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/12870
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/12870
NO HCWH with the support of UNEP and in collaboration with two partner NGOs in South Africa and Brazil implemented a series of activities designed to encourage the emergence of national policies for implementing the phase-out of mercury fever thermometers and blood pressure devices under the Minamata Convention and to provide technical assistance to hospitals to phase-out the use of mercury-containing measuring devices. This work was undertaken as part of the WHO-HCWH Mercury-Free 2020 initiative, a component of the UNEP Mercury Products Partnership. It utilized the WHO guidance for ministries of health on the implementation of the Minamata Convention as it relates to thermometers and sphygmomanometers and other materials developed both by WHO and HCWH.
NO https://www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Portals/9/Mercury/HCWH%20FINAL%20UNEP%20Mercury%20Report%20SA%20Brazil.docx
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 22, 2026