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Thanguy NZUE OBAME about the new Tobacco Control Law in Gabon

Below is the text (in French) of a cyber-interview with Thanguy NZUE OBAME, about the adoption of a Tobacco Control law in Gabon. It provides additional details to our previous post (in English only). Very interestingly article 48 of this law proposes to award 2% of the tobacco taxes to fund tobacco control activities. If adequately implemented such a budget would be extremely valuable and effective (see question 8) as most of the time no regular funding is provided. The choice of 2% is an improvement upon the goal mentioned (never implemented) in the article 6 of the 1988 European Charter Against Tobacco, "impose a levy of at least 1% of of tobacco cotx revenue to fund specific tobacco control and health promotion activities".

About the new tobacco control law in Gabon

Gabonese advocate Thanguy NZUE OBAME has shared with us copies of the new tobacco control law, Loi 006/2013 enacted on August 21 2013, about the new tobacco control policies in Gabon ('portant instauration des mesures antitabac en République Gabonaise"). Below are a few immediate comments but a more complete analysis will take more time. Here is the post published on the FCTC site on November 13.

The 10 countries the Consortium works with

The Africa Tobacco Control Consortium works in 10 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa. These countries include Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Zambia, The Gambia, Gabon, Senegal, Uganda and Congo Brazzaville. You can learn more about our project activities in these countries. For update on our project in the individual countries, please click on the country name below: Updates on our In-Country Projects

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Gabon : Toungui chapeaute la loi anti-tabac

Le ministre gabonais des Affaires étrangères, Paul Toungui, vient de soumettre au Sénat un projet de loi autorisant le chef de l’Etat à ratifier la Convention cadre de la lutte anti-tabac de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), signée par le Gabon en 2003.
Source: BDP-Gabon

Le Gabon fait un pas vers la ratification de la CCLAT

Présenté par le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères et de la  Coopération, Madame Laure Olga NGONDJOUT,  à l’Assemblée nationale le mardi 07 octobre 2008, le projet de loi relatif à la ratification de la Convention Cadre pour la Lutte Antitabac, (CCLAT) a été adopté par les députés membres de la commission des Affaires Etrangères de l’Assemblée Nationale du Gabon, faisant ainsi un grand pas vers la ratification effective de cet important traité international en matière de santé publique.

Source: Thanguy Nzue Obame

Gabon: BAT offre des points d'eau à deux villages

Le bureau Gabon du cigarettier British American Tobacco (BAT) a offert le 20 juin dernier, deux points d'eau aux populations de Santa Clara et de Akouengo, deux villages situés au nord de la capitale gabonaise.