The Heart Foundation of Jamaica - The Caribbean Tobacco Control Project

	The Project’s work and reach have attracted other regional and international attention, as follows: • The Project Manager received a scholarship to attend the highest tobacco control forum, the World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH), which last met in Mumbai, India, March 2009; • By invitation from the Bloomberg Global Initiative at its pre-WCTOH meetings involving its globally-funded tobacco control grantees, the Project Manager co-chaired a session on coalition building; • The World Heart Federation asked for and included information on the Project as well as a copy of its full-page regional ad supporting the theme for WNTD, in their press release and website for WNTD 2009; • The Global Smoke-Free Partnership asked for smoking-related regional data; • The Project Manager has been invited to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s workshop on advocacy efforts in the Caribbean, organized to take place ahead of the Second SRNT/IAHF (Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco/InterAmerican Heart Federation) Conference on Tobacco Control, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 2009; • As a result of the acceptance of an abstract on the Project, it has also been invited to the 6th National Conference on Tobacco OR Health (NCTOH), to be held in Canada in November 2009 (the NCTOH is the national level of the World Conference on Tobacco Or Health); • An invitation to present at the Caribbean College of Family Physicians’ Conference, November 2009 • Successful advocacy with Ministry of Health, Jamaica and Guyana, leading to the recent declaration by CARICOM Ministers of Health to accelerate the process to enact legislation to ban smoking in public places regionally. This is in keeping with the FCTC requirements.

	This commitment is one of the outcomes of ongoing Project lobbying of Governments to revive and enact draft tobacco control legislation in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and to encourage drafting of similar legislation in the other two project countries of Barbados and Guyana • Ongoing facilitation for the Ministries of Health in the four countries, to either revise and debate draft tobacco control legislation (Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago) or to begin drafting such a law (Barbados and Guyana). READ MORE ON THE PROJECT • History • Project Objectives • Project Partners • Project Updates • Press Articles & Releases Back Page 2 of 2