NEWS HEADLINES

World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Mumbai 2009 - early registration deadline 15 Sep 2008

Preparations are well under way for the next World Conference, and abstract submission now closed. INGCAT is a member of the organising committee and will co-chair one of the conference's 10 hemi-plenary sessions. INGCAT is also working with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education in its advisory role for the conference.

Human rights - a new approach to tobacco control

INGCAT recently participated in a small think-tank for tobacco control specialists and leading thinkers in human rights law, to consider the potential for joint working. Tobacco impacts on many aspects of human rights - the right to health, to education, to development, to freedom from exploitative working conditions and many others. Discussions will continue through a new dedicated forum on www.globalink.org and the theme will be explored at the forthcoming Mumbai conference.

Global Treatment Partnership

INGCAT's Global Tobacco Dependence Treatment Partnership (GTP) has recently completed currently a commissioned survey of training arrangments for treatment providers around the world. Publication is anticipated in time for the 3rd FCTC Conference of the Parties in November this year. The GTP is also supporting the UK's Royal College of Nursing in the establishment of a global network for nurses working in this area.

Sudan joins international survey

Following INGCAT's involvement in a World Bank funded programme on lung health in Sudan, the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey is to be established there. The Survery s based at the University of Waterloo in Canada, which will collablrate with Sudan's EpiLab to implement the survey. The survey provides invaluable insights into the impact of policy implementation (or lack of it) in participating countries and helps shape implementation guidelines for the FCTC. Read more about the survey at www.itcproject.org.