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2nd SRNT IAHF Latin American Conference on Tobacco Control
Mexico City, Oct 14-16, 2009. |
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With the
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) and
the National Inst. Respiratory Diseases (INER) of
Mexico, IAHF held this Conference with the theme “From
science to policy,” focusing on science, policy,
advocacy and treatment.
www.srnt-iahfmexico09.org. There were 466
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countries.
Ancillary meetings included workshops by Roswell Park
Cancer Institute (RPCS), American Cancer Society, Global
Dialogue, Air quality monitoring training by Tobacco
Free Kids and RPCI, Smoking Cessation training, among
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sponsored luncheon, a women and tobacco
symposium jointly sponsored with INWAT (International
Nework of Women against Tobacco), and a youth advocacy
workshop. A Coalition was set up for Central America and
a Resolution encouraging countries to continue their
tobacco control efforts was approved by delegates. |
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InterAmerican Awards for Tobacco Control |
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In the context
of the SRNT IAHF Tobacco Control conference, the IAHF
presented awards to Colombia, Guatemala and the State of
Sao Paulo for outstanding achievement in tobacco
control.
Additionally awards were presented to the Secretary of
Health, Drug Addictions Council (CONADIC) chief and the
Mexico City Secretary of Health for efforts
towards tobacco control in their jurisdictions. |
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Smokefree Mexico. |
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The ALIENTO
coalition of organizations working in tobacco control
was set up and announced in August. The focus has been
on increasing tobacco taxes. However, the Mexican House
of Representative voted an incremental very inadequate
tax, showing again the great power that the tobacco
industry wields at the federal level in Mexico. Funded
by Bloomberg awards. |
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New IAHF Members at Large 2010 - 2012 |
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On Monday
November 16, 2009, at the General Assembly that took
place in Orlando, we voted and approved new Members at
Large for the InterAmerican Heart Foundation. The new
Members at Large are:
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These persons will be in their functions for
a period of two years until Nov. 2012. This
coming year we will be voting on new
officers in Nov. 2010. |
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Smokefree Argentina |
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Efforts by FIC
Argentina have resulted in 7 smokefree provinces and 18
cities and municipalities. Bloomberg renewed the FIC
Argentina grant for two additional years and expanded
this project to include ratification of the FCTC and
national tobacco control legislation as well as
continuing to promote enactment, implementation and
enforcement of smokefree legislation. IAHF is
secretariat for ALIAR, the smokefree coalition in
Argentina. |
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Community Intervention for Health (CIH) |
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This
three-year intervention and control community project is
taking place in Tlalpan, a Mexico City borough. This is
one of four sites worldwide testing comprehensive policy
interventions in diet, physical activity and tobacco, in
worksites, schools, healthcare and the community as a
whole. Mexico completed baseline school and healthcare
site data collection, and will complete worksites and
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by year end.
Geo-referenced environmental scan is one of the many
innovations brought forth by this project. With OxHA. |
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Healthy Caribbean Coalition |
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Following the
civil society conference in Oct 08, the coalition’s
organizing taskforce has taken several actions including
disseminating the |
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Conference
Technical Report, Declaration and Action Plan;
continuing to
www.interamericanheart.org expand the website
www.healthycaribbean.org; conducting a Physical
Activity workshop on the 6-7 March 2009 in Barbados;
played a major role in their respective countries in
celebration of Caribbean Wellness Day 2009. Presently
advancing actions in dietary salt reduction; an audit of
FCTC implementation in CARICOM countries, among other
initiatives. |
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Tobacco Packaging Warning Labels in the Caribbean |
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Caribbean
Tobacco Control Project Regional Team and Partners |
Lead by the
Heart Foundation of Jamaica, project promotes warning
labels in CARICOM countries. The project supports
full-time staff dedicated to tobacco control in four
countries of the region. Presently testing potential
package designs. |
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Dietary salt-reduction |
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IAHF is part
of this PAHO initiative for the region to reduce
hypertension and has been asked to lead the regional
advocacy efforts. To be launched on Nov 16, 2009 in
Santiago, Chile. More... |
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Tobacco Control Research and Advocacy |
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The Canadian
International Development Research Center (IDRC)
continues to support proposals on tobacco and poverty,
evaluation of tobacco farmers’ situation and tobacco
economic demand studies. The BILACCTA web-based database
has been launched helping researchers and advocates in
the region to more easily find research studies, whether
published, unpublished or in progress, by topic or
country. More... |
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