Saturday, March 28, 2009

Welcome to ATCRI Blog

The Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI) is an initiative of Cancer Research U.K and the American Cancer Society (ACS) to respond to the challenge of well-focused, coordinated and well resourced tobacco control programming in Africa . The Initiative is being hosted by Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN). ATCRI will promote the adoption, implementation and enforcement of effective in-country tobacco control policies, legislation and programmes across the African continent by providing the platform for information sharing, institutional support and capacity building among all tobacco-control stakeholders.ATCRI is currently the most ambitious tobacco control project in the continent.

The initiative is expected to grow to become the programming hub for tobacco control in Africa . The idea of a regional initiative came out after a need assessment conducted among tobacco control advocates and public health experts from the continent.

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