Chukwuma Muanya
Jump to full article: The Guardian (Lagos, Nigeria), 2008-07-03
Intro: The Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF) and the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) are to conduct a Nigerian Tobacco Situational Analysis. This was disclosed at a National Stakeholders Meeting on the Nigerian Tobacco Situational Analysis (NTSA) organised recently in Lagos. The meeting was sequel to the approval by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The stakeholders recommended: Commissioning of a community based National Study using the household as the study unit; and International agencies should be involved in funding the countrywide studies that would generate adequate baseline data.
Executive Director of NHF, Dr. Kingsley Akinroye, said the meeting was a landmark event and a very important step in the move to make Nigeria a tobacco free Nation. . . .
An African Tobacco Situational Analysis (ATSA) consultant, Anne-Maria Schryer-Roy, said that her role at the meeting was to observe and participate as well as identify areas where the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) can be of assistance in the near future; and provide guidance where required.
She said the ATSA initiative; a partnership between IDRC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a central aim of trying to understand the critical determinants of success for tobacco control in Sub-Saharan Africa, which will be used to inform the development and implementation of tobacco control strategies in the region.
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