GPTC BULLETIN
~ October 2001 ~

Contents:

1. Welcome to new GPTC participants
2. Congratulations to new global partnerships!
3. Sampling of what partnerships are up to
4. Thanks to SFTFP Global Survey respondents


1) WELCOME NEW GPTC PARTICIPANTS! (September & October)

  • Accra East District Council of the Boys & the Girls' Brigades (Ghana)
  • The Border Health Initiative/Iniciativa de Salud Fronteriza (Mexico)
  • Journalists Advocacy for Safe Environment and Tobacco Eradication (Nigeria)
  • Asociacion Peruana contra el Tabaquismo (Peru)
  • Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
  • Alameda Country Tobacco Control Program (U.S. - CA)
  • Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL) (U.S. - CA)
  • Next Generation California Tobacco Control Alliance (U.S. - CA)
  • Asian Media Access (U.S. - MN)
  • Lao Family Community of MN, Inc (U.S. - MN)
  • Tobacco Free Norman (U.S. - OK)


2) CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS! (September & October)

  • Indonesian Smoking Control Foundation (Lembaga Menaggulangi Masalah
    Merokok - LM 3) and Vichealth Centre for Tobacco Control (Australia)
  • BNICEH - Black Network In Children's Emotional Health (U.S. -IL) and
    Environment and Development Association of Ghana (Ghana)
  • Alameda Country Tobacco Control Program's "Students Towards a Rapid Smoke-Free School" Project (U.S. - CA) and group of students at the Ukrainian State Maritime Technical University
  • Franklin Health Dept's Franklin Youth Coalition (U.S. - WI) and Kobelyaky Education Training Complex #1 (Ukraine)
  • Illinois Academy of Family Physicians' Tar Wars program (U.S. - IL) and Development Council for Youths (Bangladesh)
  • Erie-Niagra Tobacco-Free Coalition (U.S. - NY) and Consumer Watch (Kenya)
  • Bons Temeliers (Dem. Republic of Congo) and Global Kids, Inc (U.S. - NY)
  • GAP-BRIDGE (Ghana) and Swan Valley Community Support Network (U.S. -MI)


3) SAMPLING OF MISCELLANEOUS GPTC-RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • Barbara Bruce of Navajo Co. Tobacco Education & Prevention Program (U.S. - AZ) and Angelo Izama of Monitor FM (Uganda), both radio talk show hosts, hope to do a joint radio show soon. Barbara recently interviewed Indian tobacco control advocate Bobby Ramakant on her 1/2 hour weekly tobacco talk show (which devotes one show a month to international tobacco control issues). A month earlier Angelo also interviewed Bobby. Last month, Barbara interviewed Sue Lawrence, an former Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada intern, about her experience in Turkey working with Elif Dagli (National Committee on Tobacco or Health). In the future, Barbara hopes to make her radio interviews accessible online. In the meantime, contact <awhite@essential.org> or <barbarab@co.navajo.az.us> for tapes.
  • Pat Hale (U.S. - OR) and Gloria Luther of Volusia County Health Department (U.S. - FL) will present a poster on their respective partnerships with Association "Women Against Tobacco" (Bulgaria) and FADDES (Senegal) at a National Conference on Tobacco or Health poster session.
  • Jasmine Dinh of Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco visited her partner's country, Vietnam, in September. She was unable to visit the Vietnam Committee on Smoking and Health, but she was impressed by the dearth of tobacco billboards and a notable absence of kids selling cigarettes.
  • Gloria Luther of Volusia County Health Department (U.S. - FL) would like to incorporate the Senegalese film "FAAT KINE" (2000) in SWAT's current campaign on Hollywood and tobacco. If she can get a copy of the film, SWAT members will view and analyze smoking scenes in the movie and write follow up letters to the director.
  • Moli Pa'au of the American Somoa Government and Judith Coykendall and Donna Levesque of the PACT Program (U.S. - MA) recently participated in a conference call. Among the issues they discussed and compared: tobacco control funding sources, smoking rates, tobacco marketing strategies, tobacco industry "youth smoking prevention" programs, enforcement, and second hand smoke. Judith and Donna will share examples of youth tobacco surveys from Massachusetts with Moli.
  • Valerie Whipps of Coalition for a Tobacco Free Palau (Palau) and Mary Beth Anderson of Community Intervention, Inc (U.S. - MN) plan to meet and discuss their partnership at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in New Orleans.
  • Annie Tegen of ALA-Metropolitan Chicago (U.S. - IL) reports that a representative of their partner group, Belarusian Anti-Tuberculosis Society (Belarus), visited their organization a few months ago. They plan to pursue a teen-to-teen activity.
  • Patricia Varona Perez of the Instituto Nacional de Higiene Epidemiologia y Microbiologia (Cuba) recently received a grant to do tobacco control interventions with health workers and community leaders. She hopes to collaborate with BREATH (U.S. - CA) on the project. BREATH is investigating ways to send mail to Cuba.
  • Kathy Hahn of the Franklin Health Department (U.S. - WI) recently sent over a packet of tobacco control materials to Kelly French, a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer at Kobelyaky Education Training Complex #1 (Ukraine). The packet included information about their activities in Wisconsin, their coalition's rules, posters, and a billboard contest on "clean indoor air" that they ran for 7th graders.
  • Marla Blagg of Alamedia County Public Health Dept (U.S. - CA) was recently in her partner's country (Russia), though they were unable to meet. Galina Tkachenko of the National Anti-Smoking Center of the Ministry of Health has asked for assistance in getting permission to translate CDC documents into Russian. Marla has a colleague from Kazakhstan who helps translate her messages to Galina into Russian.


4) THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Thanks to the following individuals who completed the San Francisco Tobacco Free Project's global survey form on the FCTC by October 19:

Alphonse Issi (Cameroon), Fred Odhiambo (Kenya), Shane Bradbrook (New Zealand), Tariq Parvez (Pakistan), Ehsan Latif (Pakistan), Annabel Lyman (Palau), Eduardo Bianco (Uruguay), Do Gia Phan (Vietnam)


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