Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Up in smoke? Global Tobacco Control Advocacy and local mobilization in Africa

Up in smoke? Global Tobacco Control Advocacy and local mobilization in Africa, is a paper by Amy S Patterson and Elizabeth Gil, published in Oxford's International Affairs. Unfortunately, only the abstract is accessible for free. To access it for 24 hour, would cost you $45! I doubt many of our readers can make such an investment. I was allowed to read it via a friend who had access. It is a discussion on how much the big donors (like Gates and Bloomberg) influence/control the type of advocacy organized locally and how they could be wrong. Comments from advocates would be interesting, if they were willing to comment. It's hard to compare countries. Here the focus is on Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania. I'll leave at that for now. Time for Le grande Thanksgiving, le jour de merci donnant... thank you Art. Rereading this post in 2021 and looking for Amy Patterson, I find this opinion she wrote for the Washington Post for WNTD 2021. She seems to miss the fact there is no difference between Bloomberg/GF and WHO as they are the main funders of WHO.

$5,992,617 to supply Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with "country specific data"

Visiting the Gates Foundation site I find this new grant (October 2019) to Development Gateway. If you are curious about other grants awarded to tobacco control projects concerning Africa, click here.

New Tobacco Control Act in Ivory Coast

Pascal Bogui let me know about the new Tobacco Control Act of July 23 2019, published in the Journal Officiel on October 21, 2019 (PDF in French) that has been enacted in Ivory Coast after years of efforts. Details in English here, courtesy of CTFK Tobacco Control Laws project. If you can read French you'll find lots of article via Google. As we know, passing legislation is one thing, implementation is another but all our best wishes. Et une minute de nostalgie en pensant à tous ces blogs francophones créés, et maintenant dans la nuit froide de l'oubli...