Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

$ 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.

What is the management overhead for the grants awarded to promote tobacco control in Africa?

This recent article about overhead at big charities invites the question about the management overhead. For instance, what is ACS doing for their apparent very substantial share  ($1.5 million+?) of the Gates Foundation grant ($7 to 8 million)?

UICC 2008 - Luk Joossens and the Tobacco Control Scale (or Scorecard)

This is a "reprint" of an interview made by Philippe Boucher during the UICC conference that took place in Geneva in september 2008 that was the last podcast posted for Globalink Radio. The tobacco control scale is a key concept that should be used to assess the situation in each African country.

Luk was up early today to be part of a "Challenge the expert" session starting a 7.30 am. We used this opportunity to talk to him.
LISTEN (5 min)

 The initial paper published in the June 2006 issue of Tobacco Control by Martin Raw and Luk Joossens.

The 2007 progress report published in October 2007 (pdf format) lists 30 European countries.
Another useful exercise is for your country to "take the test" and see what your score is on the scale.

Update about the Tobacco Control Scale (I prefer score card)

The third Tobacco Control Scale for European countries will be presentated at the conference.
The Tobacco Control Scale (TCS) quantifies the implementation of tobacco control policy at country level.