ACS about the recent tobacco control workshop in Ouagadougou

The Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI) hosted a capacity building and strategy workshop for Francophone tobacco control advocates August 20- 23 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Source: ACS blog

ATCRI, which is co-supported by the American Cancer Society and Cancer Research UK, was attended by participants from 14 French-speaking African countries, who met to discuss the development of sustainable national tobacco control action plans and strengthening alliances to allow for multi-partner interventions and action at the regional level.

ATCRI and its Francophone partner organization, Observatoire du Tabac en Afrique Francophone (OTAF), also organized a press conference with local journalists.

Several press articles were written and interviews with ATCRI and OTAF workshop organizers were broadcast on a local nightly news report.This was the second workshop organized by ATCRI, following a similar meeting with Anglophone tobacco control advocates held February 2009 in Accra, Ghana.