East Africa: WHO Set to Offer Technical Aid to EAC in Tobacco Control

THE World Health Organization (WHO) has offered to provide technical assistance to the East African Community (EAC) member states to develop their capacity to implement policy changes in favour of tobacco control.

Speaking to journalists in Nairobi recently, WHO Kenya Country Representative Dr Custodia Mandlhate said tobacco use was emerging as a leading cause of preventable disease and premature death in the region. "The EAC states are encouraged to increase taxes on tobacco so as to discourage and to prevent other people from being addicted to tobacco," Mandlhate added. The WHO is supporting the EAC in the implementation of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which was unanimously adopted by world states in 2003. T

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