Content: Kindly draw your attention to the date of this year's International lead poisoning prevention week of action, which is 19-25 October 2014. The theme is once again the elimination of lead paint. As before, we are putting a range of multilingual materials on our campaign page (https:////www.who.int/ipcs/lead_campaign/en/) that can be adapted for local use.

Last year, events in 100 cities in 44 countries were registered on WHO website - you can find a short report at https:////www.who.int/ipcs/lead_campaign/en/. This year we are hoping for even more events and we would be grateful if you could pass on information about the action week to your contacts. If you are planning an event, whether it concerns lead in paint or from other sources, or if you know someone who is, please could you / they register the event on website at: https:////www.who.int/ipcs/lead_campaign/event_registration/en/.