We need to build the capacity to manage road safety systems, with a focus on prevention of injuries, treatment of injuries and rehabilitation of the injured.

Road traffic injuries can be prevented.

Recognizing also that road traffic injuries are a preventable and treatable problem,

Convinced that road traffic injuries are a major public health problem requiring concerted multisectoral efforts for effective and sustainable prevention,

The resolution on road safety and health also called upon Member States to prioritize road safety as a public health issue and to take steps to implement measures that are known to be effective in reducing road traffic injuries.

Convinced that road safety requires partnerships, bridging many sectors of society, to promote and facilitate efforts to prevent road traffic injuries,

Road traffic injuries have become an ever more serious public health problem.

Establishing the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration is an attempt to bring together a diverse but complementary group of agencies with a common commitment to reducing road traffic injuries.

Affirming the need for a worldwide effort to raise awareness about the health impact and social and economic costs of injuries caused by road traffic accidents,

It is very disturbing to be reminded that road traffic injuries continue to pose a major public health problem and are a leading cause of death in many countries, especially in the developing world.

Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and a leading cause of death and injury around the world.

We also wish to acknowledge the important coordination role played by the World Health Organization and the valuable framework for road safety action provided by the Organization's global report on road traffic injury prevention (A 60 181).

As a result, many Governments have declared their support for road safety initiatives, a number of non governmental organizations have launched or strengthened their activities in this area and there has been an increase in the financial resources targeted at efforts to reduce road traffic injuries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated World Health Day to road safety and, together with the World Bank, launched the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.

Mobilizing resources remains a concern for many organizations involved in global and national road safety efforts, as the level of funding targeted at reducing road traffic injuries is far from commensurate with the scale of the problem.

Reducing road traffic injuries is important to the successful achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to poverty, child mortality reduction and environmental sustainability.

As such, it serves as both an advocacy tool and a technical document, including six major recommendations on what countries can do to address the problem of road traffic injuries.

However, we note also that mobilizing resources remains a concern for many organizations involved in global and national road safety efforts, as the level of funding targeted at reducing road traffic injuries is far from commensurate with the scale of the problem.

According to the same report, if appropriate action is not taken, by 2020 road traffic injuries will climb to become the world's third leading contributor to disease and injury.

Commending the World Health Organization for its important work, and welcoming the selection of the theme Road safety for the observance of World Health Day on 7 April 2004, when the World Health Organization will release its World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention,

The international community needs to build on the efforts and momentum of last year's World Health Day, which was dedicated to road safety, and accelerate our collaborative efforts to reduce traffic accident related injuries and deaths.

Nevertheless, over the past year, there has been increasing consensus around the globe on the need to address road traffic injuries as a global public health problem.

As long as this is so, and as long as undesirable human behaviour is an important cause of traffic accidents, education, complemented by enforcement measures, adequate infrastructures and sound collaborative efforts, will be the key to reducing road casualties.

3. Invites the Economic and Social Council, working with other relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, and through its regional commissions, to facilitate the exchange of information on best road traffic safety practices and the development of recommendations for road traffic injury control

Funding to reduce injuries caused by traffic accidents is not commensurate with the scope of the problem and is generally not enough to carry out the necessary awareness campaigns or set up the required machinery to supervise, evaluate and monitor results.

Within the United Nations system itself, a number of agencies have used this momentum to initiate or accelerate programmes aimed at reducing road traffic injuries.

Advocacy of this nature is seen as instrumental in mobilizing the resources that developing countries will need to respond to the global road safety crisis and carry out the recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.

Such grim statistics definitely demand urgent attention and concerted efforts by the international community aimed at tackling and reversing the situation, as road traffic injuries are largely preventable.

In addition to the enormous economic and social costs to individuals, families and communities, road traffic injuries place a heavy burden on national health services, in particular those of developing countries.

Sexually transmissible infections

The resolution also commended WHO and the World Bank for the initiative of launching the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, which contains a number of recommendations to guide road safety in countries.

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Road safety education is important for inculcating the correct mindset and road behaviour in all road users.

Fear of being beaten or thrown out or their inability to go back to their families places them in a vulnerable position where they cannot protect themselves against STIs and HIV.

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The European Federation of Road Traffic Victims and RoadPeace are working to establish a World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims in recognition of road traffic victims and their family's loss and suffering.

The attack killed at least 10, injuring many more.

On 5 November 2003, the Assembly adopted resolution 58 9, calling, inter alia, for a special plenary meeting of the Assembly to be held on 14 April 2004 to increase awareness of the magnitude of the road traffic injury problem at a high level.

According to WHO projections, unless effective measures are taken, by 2020 road traffic injuries could rank third among the threats to human health, with serious economic and social consequences for all nations, particularly the developing countries.

Partners in the Road Safety Collaboration are producing a series of how to manuals that will provide guidance to countries on how to implement some of the recommendations identified in the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.

The focus on safer roads will enable us to deal with the need to improve road design, construction and management.

She sustained some injuries while working on the film.

We know it is possible to break the cycle of new infections.

Patients with opportunist infections were also given free treatment.

Also invites Member States to establish a lead agency, on a national level, on road safety and to develop a national action plan to reduce road traffic injuries, by passing and enforcing legislation, conducting necessary awareness raising campaigns and putting in place appropriate methods to monitor and evaluate interventions that are implemented