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.

$ 84,962 for an Anglophone Lawyers Seminar in Addis Ababa

Recent grant noted on the Bloomberg Initiative website: $84,962 for The Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) to support a 5-day Seminar for English-speaking African lawyers in Addis Ababa on the FCTC and the drafting and implementation of effective tobacco control legislation.

Liberia: Enforce Regulation Against Public Smoking

This Editorial in The News (from Monrovia) underlines the need for enforcement.

Seychelles: Impact of smoking ban in public places

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

Smoke-free spaces in Africa growing at a snail’s pace

Smoke-free spaces in Africa growing at a snail’s pace (from FCTC's site)