by Julia Berg | Apr 30, 2025 | Review, Updates
Introduction from LEEP’s Co-Executive Directors 2024 was an exciting year for LEEP, as well as the wider field of actors working on lead poisoning. We continued to scale our lead paint programs, supporting governments and industry to eliminate lead paint from...
by Julia Berg | Mar 25, 2025 | Paint study, Peru, Regulation, Research, Updates, Workshop
Summary In October 2024, the General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety (DIGESA), an agency of the Ministry of Health (MINSA), and LEEP conducted a paint study to assess the availability of lead paint on the market in Peru. The results showed that 16...
by Julia Berg | Dec 26, 2024 | Burundi, Paint study, Regulation, Research, Updates, Workshop
Summary LEEP and two government partners in Burundi conducted a study to determine the lead content of paints in Burundi. The results showed that 13 out of 47 (27%) samples of paints for home use contained hazardous levels of lead (greater than 90 ppm). LEEP, the...
by Julia Berg | Nov 12, 2024 | Niger, Paint study, Regulation, Research, Updates, Workshop
Summary The State of Niger, through the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Public Health, in partnership with LEEP, conducted a study in 2022 to determine the lead content in paints available on the Nigerien market. The results showed that 15 out of 49 (31%)...
by Julia Berg | Sep 27, 2024 | Côte d'Ivoire, Paint study, Regulation, Updates, Workshop
Summary In September 2023, a paint study was jointly conducted in Côte d’Ivoire by LEEP and the African Center for Environmental Health (CASE), at the request of the Ministry of Health through the Directorate of Public Hygiene and Environmental Health (DHPSE)....
by Julia Berg | Aug 29, 2024 | Nigeria, Regulation, Updates, Workshop
Summary In July 2023, LEEP awarded a grant to Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev Nigeria) to support lead paint elimination in Nigeria through government advocacy and industry engagement. In October 2023, SRADev Nigeria held an...
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