On December 2007, the Gates Foundation awarded $5 274 477 to IDRC to promote tobacco
control in Africa. At the same time, McDougall, who was a Director of Imperial Tobacco …

AFRICA/CANADA: BAT DIRECTOR ON AID BOARD SPURS BOYCOTT Tobacco control
advocates were shocked to learn on 7 March that Barbara McDougall, the chair of the …

Objective: To describe, as of July 2011, the status of tobacco control legislation in Africa in
three key areas of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)-(1) Protection …

Abstract An interview with Derek Yach, the one who shepherded negotiations over the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and is currently a professor at the Yale …

Background: Tobacco Industry (TI) interference in policy development and implementation in
Kenya has been widely reported in both local and international media outlets. A local …

ABSTRACT CTCA was established in July 2011 by WHO, with funding from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The Centre is mandated to provide technical and …

Background In 2018, South Africa opened public consultations on its newly proposed
tobacco control bill, resulting in substantial public debate in which a range of arguments …

On 27 February 2005, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
entered into force and became legally binding for the contracting countries, referred to as the …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control (FCTC) is the first international health treaty and has now been ratified by 181 …

Objective To describe, as of July 2011, the status of tobacco control legislation in Africa in
three key areas of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)—(1) Protection …