The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was adopted in May 2003 by the World Health Assembly, in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. The goal of WHO FCTC is to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic effects of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.
Date: Thursday, 1 June 2023
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 hrs, CET
Platform: Zoom
Registration: Please, access through this link for English registration, and cliquez-ici pour accéder au formulaire en français.
Interpretation: Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English and French.
Education, communication and public awareness programmes required under Article 12 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) should be an integral part of comprehensive tobacco control strategies, plans and programmes. Indeed, they are efficient to reduce smoking initiation and maintenance. Those programs are usually expensive and the funding are not sufficient to ensure their implementation or their sustainability.
The objective of this webinar is to identify mechanisms of financing awareness raising programmes for tobacco control and to provide examples on how to obtain and structure such mechanisms.
The invited speakers will present examples of: taxation of tobacco products and utilization of tobacco taxation for funding public health programmes; governance mechanisms for the existing funds; and techniques of advocacy to target decision-makers to get funds for awareness raising programmes.
The programme of the webinar is available both in English and French.
You work in a structure that contributes to the fight against tobacco, at a national or local level, whehter it is a public institution, a community, an association, a private structure or you work for the implementation of public health policies: this webinar may interest you!
For more information, contact the Knowledge Center at KHarticle12@santepubliquefrance.fr
Date: Thursday, 4 May 2023
Time: 14:00 hrs, Sao Paulo time; 17:00, GMT; 13:00, ET
Registration: Please, access through this link.
Interpretation: Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
This webinar is organized by the WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18 – hosted by the Center for Studies on Tobacco or Health of the Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health (CETAB/Fiocruz) – and by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
From cultivation to consumption, tobacco production is related to problems such as deforestation and soil and water pollution. Workers involved in tobacco farming are exposed to several health risks – among them, the Green Tobacco Sickness, a type of poisoning caused by the transdermal absorption of nicotine from the surface of wet tobacco plants.
The WHO FCTC contains an article to deal with these issues: Article 18, which refers to the protection of the environment and people's health in relation to the environment in respect of tobacco cultivation and manufacture. "Expanding the implementation of this article is essential for us to reduce the harm caused by tobacco production and consumption", says Marcelo Moreno, the coordinator of the Knowledge Hub and a researcher at CETAB.
The webinar will be important to address these problems as violations of human rights."“Human rights are thought of as a set of inalienable rights, such as the right to life, to health, and to a healthy environment. When we think of this definition in relation to the tobacco production chain, we see that there is a clash between the application of human rights and the intrinsic rules of this production process. Exposing such contradictions makes us seek real changes: how do we deal with violations that occur in the tobacco production chain? With this discussion, we can point out the problems and think of ways to overcome them", explains Breno Gaspar, CETAB researcher and organizer of the event.
The event will feature lectures by Maria Juliana Moura Corrêa, director of the Department of Environmental and Workers Health Surveillance of the Brazilian Ministry of Health; Carolyn Dressler, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Board Member; and Brenda Chitindi, from the Tobacco-Free Association of Zambia (TOFAZA).
For more information, contact the Knowledge Center at kh.cetab@fiocruz.br, or on its social media, available at its website.
