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New date for 1st Africa Conference on Tobacco Control and Development
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect us. Governments, institutions, and communities are all still grappling with the impact of this life-changing pandemic, finding a new norm. The 1st Africa Conference on Tobacco Control and...
The Gambia launches its second COVID-19 tobacco control caravan
As the coronavirus spreads across the continent, countries need to continue to encourage citizens to maintain the measures that protect them from getting the virus. This includes social distancing, wearing masks and washing their hands. Departments of Health also have...
Call for abstracts for first Africa Conference on Tobacco and Development now open
With the theme Tobacco Free Africa: An urgent call for joint action, the aim of the conference is to bring together all the tobacco control actors on the continent. The conference will run over four days from September 27 until 30. Over the four days, there...
Burkina Faso develops a national tobacco control programme
Reducing tobacco use in a country is only possible if a government has a plan on how they can tackle this problem. For governments, this means that they need a National Tobacco Control Programme, or an NTCP. An NTCP has four main purposes. It helps to prioritise...
Niger’s tobacco control committee gets a code of conduct
Article 5.3 of the World Health Organisations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control clearly sets out the rules of engagement that governments need to abide by in relation to the tobacco industry. The article was established to ensure that the tobacco industry has no...
Niger revises it’s national tobacco control programme
A National Tobacco Control Programme helps governments to develop a structured approach to tobacco control in their countries. It ensures that they have planned and budgeted for tobacco control and makes sure that the strategies chosen in a specific country are...
Announcements
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR AUDITING SERVICES
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR AUDITING SERVICES Institution: Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) Project Title: Auditing CTCA for the Year ended 2024 Expression of Interest Number: CTCA/EOI/ 2025-001 Introduction to CTCA: The Centre for Tobacco...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR AUDITING SERVICES
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR AUDITING SERVICES Institution: Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) Project Title: Auditing CTCA for the Year ended 2024 Expression of Interest Number: CTCA/EOI/ 2025-001 Introduction to CTCA: The Centre for Tobacco...
Call for Proposals
Project Title: Enhance Tobacco Control Institutional Capacity in Africa; Grant #339 Introduction: The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) received funding from the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) for the 2024-2026 to implement a project...