Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Kenya: 3 Bloomberg Initiative grants (for a total of $260,077) to promote smoke-free workplaces and tobacco control policies

A one year grant of $100,484 to the African Women's Alliance for Tobacco Control to promote smoke-free workplaces, $68,254 for the Kenya Tobacco Control Alliance, $91,339 for the Tobacco Control Board. Total awarded = $260,077.

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.

Seychelles: Impact of smoking ban in public places

A small assessment study in the Seychelles published in the Tobacco Control Journal.

Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge: any initiative in Africa?

It comes from the Clinton Global Initiative via the Unfiltered blog of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. But for now I only see one pdf document without any contact. Anybody active in Africa for this challenge?

The WSJ health blog does not offer any link either.