Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Gates Foundation grant of $4.6 million to the CDC Foundation for tobacco control surveys

We found the information on the CDC Foundation blog, in a post dated December 10 2014.

What makes an effective campaign?

Each campaign needs to have a focus in four areas throughout the campaign. The campaign needs effective management, it needs the right policy, it needs an effective communication strategy and it needs the right network. These elements interplay with each other.

From the Network Advocacy blog.

Eritrea: two tobacco control conferences

The conferences were about the Tobacco Free Schools Initiative and the use of tobacco by Eritrean Health professionals.

Source: IDRC' site.

Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS) in Africa: where to get the results? what do they tell?

The Global Youth Tobacco Surveys that took place in African countries can be found on the WHO-Afro website: unfortunately they are only in a pdf format (for now) and in english (for what I could find). To make those figures usable on line it is necessary to transfer the content into an html format. Still if you already want to have a look it is worth a visit. One strange point seems to be the ight percentage of kids who declare using tobacco products that are not cigarettes: what are they if not cigarettes?

For additional contacts with AFRO-WHO

For more information about GYTS