Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2007-11-28
Author: Sarjo Camara Singateh / FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Intro: "Tobacco has been a subject of intensive debate on the international health agenda for quite too long" says Dr. Nestor Shivute, the World Health Organisation Representative to the Gambia.
Dr. Shivute made this remark at a one-day national consultative workshop on the WHO framework convention on tobacco control organised by the African Network for Information and Action against Drugs (RAID).
Dr. Shivute commended the government of the Gambia for ratifying the WHO framework convention on Tobacco, without which it would not have been possible to hold this very important meeting.
He said it had not only been a long way but a difficult journey in establishing these facts associated with negative social, economic and political implications due to tobacco use.
He stated that it is in response to this complex dilemma surrounding tobacco use that the World Health Organisation has since 1998 been working very closely with its 192 member states, international institutions and organizations around the world to develop an all inclusive framework convention for tobacco control.
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