| | PANNA: The Arusha Declaration: Persistent Organic Pollutants Out of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | In July 2002, a landmark meeting was held in Arusha, Tanzania to launch an African campaign to ratify the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). |
 | | The document, The IPEN Arusha Declaration on the Elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants in African Countries, places emphasis on two eminent health threats: the obsolete, deteriorating, and sometimes leaking stockpiles of POPs chemicals throughout Africa, and the prevalence of malaria in Africa and the importance of finding methods other than DDT for its control. |
 | | The Arusha Declaration ultimately called for a phase out of incineration as soon as possible, preferably within four years of ratification of the Stockholm Convention, and placed a high priority on development of closed systems technologies with no uncontrolled POPs releases. |
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