AIP Foundation CEO Mirjam Sidik collaborated with child injury prevention peers at Safe Kids Worldwide’s annual Global Network Meeting. At the forum, Sidik shared her organization’s experiences advocating for child road safety legislation in Vietnam during a roundtable discussion. AIP Foundation was also one of three winners of a small grant competition, and will use
Pagna Kim, AIP Foundation’s Cambodia Country Director, presented on helmet use in his country at the 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference in Canberra, Australia. The annual event brought together more than 600 representatives from international governments and organizations, as well as researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and industry leaders. Kim’s presentation, “Motorcycle passenger helmet use in Cambodia – a turning
The British Medical Journal’s “Injury Prevention Journal” published AIP Foundation’s abstract revealing mid-term data from its Cambodian helmet safety awareness program, Head Safe. Helmet On. The piece, titled “Knowledge of, attitude toward and practice of helmet use among motorcycle passengers in Cambodia,” revealed that awareness of the new passenger helmet law increased from 69% in
Right of Way: Child Poverty & Road Traffic Injury in the SDGs, a new report published by UNICEF and FIA Foundation, and as part of the Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility, explores how road crash injuries perpetuate child poverty worldwide. The publication includes case studies in countries lacking adequate road safety standards such as Tanzania and Thailand, as
GlobalGiving, a U.S.-based online fundraising platform for nonprofits, recently selected AIP Foundation’s submission as one of 73 finalists in its 7th annual photo contest. The contest was open to the public for a week this month, during which time the Helmets for Kids photo received 524 votes and earned a third place finish in its category. Thanks
This month saw the debut of the Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility. FIA Foundation, along with others, is hosting and coordinating this important collaborative effort to realize a future in which the world’s children have access to safe, low-carbon mobility; clean air and a healthy environment; and a safe and healthy journey to
A preliminary study out of the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics highlights one of the current challenges in helmet safety in low- and middle-income countries: the inferior protection afforded by sub-standard motorcycle helmets. In tests of certified and uncertified helmets from a variety of countries, uncertified (substandard) helmets were about three times more likely
Xiaoyan Xu, China Country Director at AIP Foundation, presented at the Asia Pacific Road Safety 2016 Conference: Halving road deaths and injuries by 2020 – The Challenges for Communities, Companies and Countries. Xiaoyan presented a session called “A child’s right to road safety,” reflecting on our current project, Walk Wise, which aims to increase pedestrian safety among children commuting to and from school. Organized by the
For the first time since 2004, the World Health Assembly has adopted a resolution on road safety, noting that urgent action is needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020. Among other items, the resolution calls for national strategies and plans to address
Source: POPSUGAR.com, 27 April, 2016. Nine times out of 10, you make sure your kids wear their helmets when they go out on a bike ride. But that one time you don’t? The one time they fall? That’s when it matters most. Just ask Tiffany Rivera, whose 10-year-old son Jaden rode his bike without a
