Moreover, the fact that even voluntary, industry-friendly pesticide guidelines posed significant problems for Philip Morris underscores tobacco industry motivation for resisting or influencing more stringent, government-imposed regulations.
Programs like Medicare, he says, brought about the demise of "voluntary charities and organizations, such as friendly societies, that devoted themselves to helping those in need" during the early 20th century.
Helicopter pilots and their associations have questioned the need for government regulation, saying the Fly Friendly program and other voluntary efforts to inform pilots about noise sensitive areas and how to avoid them have been fruitful.
There must be improved access by young people to friendly health services where voluntary and confidential HIV testing, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and condoms will be available.
The bill's original mandatory safety provisions have been slimmed down to voluntary guidelines after tech and business-friendly legislators blocked the requirements as overly-burdensome.
ART Anti-retroviral therapy HBC Home based care IPT Isoniazid preventive therapy PLWH People living with HIV TB Tuberculosis VCT Voluntary counselling and HIV testing YFS Youth friendly services The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
Last fall, the FWS issued voluntary guidelines for the construction of bird-friendly towers, including height limits, lack of supporting guy wires, and white, infrequently flashing lights that are least attractive to birds.
We support youth-friendly services, including access to voluntary counselling and testing.
Introduced in 1992, the voluntary program encouraged manufacturers to produce more environmentally friendly products, in part by assuring them that consumers would understand the benefits of buying them.
He was fond of contrasting the vocabulary of self-organisation, with its friendly societies, mutuals, co-operatives and voluntary associations, with the nomenclature of the state and private sectors with their directorates, corporations, boards and executives.
