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How multinationals lure African kids into smoking, by study

A report released recently by the Africa Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) shows a tactic tobacco companies in Africa use in addicting kids. The report...
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Community, workers collaborate to tackle infant, maternal mortality

In a bid to check high child and maternal mortality in Lagos, locals in communities have forged a harmonious collaboration with health workers in...
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Michael Bloomberg to commit $360m to global tobacco fight

Former New York City Mayor and philanthropist, Michael R. Bloomberg, on Monday, 5 December 2016, announced that he is committing an additional $360 million...
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Africa’s top female medical researchers decorated

Science and technology company, Merck, in partnership with the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), African Union, Ethiopia Ministry of Health,...
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Nigeria well represented at tobacco COP7, say delegates

Despite initial hiccups, the Nigerian delegation to the Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework...
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COP7: Nations adopt landmark tobacco control decisions

After one week of heated negotiations and intrigues, governments representing over 90 percent of the world’s population who attended Seventh Session of the Conference...
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Government affirms confidence in controversial tobacco control committee

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has reaffirmed his confidence on the members of the National Tobacco Control Committee (NATOCC), saying that they have...
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WHO COP7 delegates demand end to tobacco industry interference

Eighteen government delegates who represent the governments of more than 57 million people on Monday called for the strongest protections yet to guard against...
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