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Mozambique workshop, May 2007

In late May 2007, CPHA co-hosted in partnership with the Associação Moçambicana de Saúde Pública (AMOSAPU) a workshop in Maputo (Mozambique) on “Leadership on Tobacco Control for Public Health Associations in East and Southern Africa.”  This event marked the first occasion that public health associations in the east and southern Africa region met on the issue of tobacco control.  The purpose of the meeting was to promote the active participation of public health associations in this region in the definition and development of strategies for tobacco control policy advocacy and action (programs and practice) at the national and regional levels. Participants felt the meeting was of vital importance in not only increasing their respective PHA’s engagement in tobacco control, but as well, the agenda reflected very well the priority concerns, challenges and opinions of people from the African continent.  The workshop’s recommendations included a call by African PHAs to national governments to ratify the FCTC, and also called for increase applied research by local organizations and PHAs on the issue of tobacco control.

Presentations:

• A comprehensive approach to reducing tobacco use, Cynthia Callard, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PDF: 543k)
• Where there is smoke….; CPHA’s involvement in international tobacco control, James Chauvin, Canadian Public Health Association (PDF: 46k)
• Implementation of the WHO FCTC in the African region, Dr. Jean-Pierre Baptiste of the WHO Regional Office for Africa (PDF: 274k)
• The Bloomberg Global Initiative (BGI) to reduce tobacco use, Christopher Fitzpatrick of the Tobacco-Free Initiative/WHO Geneva (PDF: 341k)
• Generation & Utilization of Evidence for TC Advocacy and Action, Dr. Ayda Yurekli, Director of the Research for International Tobacco Control/International Development Research Centre (PDF: 60k)
• Controle do tabaco em Moçambique, Mozambique Public Health Association (in Portuguese, PDF: 60k)
• FCTC ratification: Tanzania experience, Tanzania Public Health Association (PDF: 75k)
• Tobacco control legislation in South Africa, Public Health Association of South Africa (PDF: 45k)
• Uganda National Association of Community and Occupational Health: Anti-tobacco activities (PDF: 16k)
• Global tobacco economy and public health initiative: a case study in two African countries and Ethiopian situation, Ethiopian Public Health Association (PDF: 21k)