Support Plan de 5-Jours smoking cessation training programme (2017 and 2018) VISA provided financial support for the organisation of a smoking cessation training programme targeting 30 smokers. The programme was run by Plan de 5 Jours and uses behavioural techniques to support quitting.
The President and Honorary Secretary of VISA attended a seminar on “Plain packaging of tobacco products” organized by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK) from December 5-7, 2017, in Windsor, United Kingdom. The seminar brought together civil society leaders from around the world to learn and discuss the key issues in building the momentum…
VISA marked World No Tobacco Day 2016 by organizing a series of activities aimed at promoting the enforcement of the Public Health (Restrictions on Tobacco Products) Regulations 2008. These included the following: Training of 200 members of the police force through 5 one-day regional training workshops, organized in the month of May 2016 in collaboration…
Two training of trainers workshops were held at the Gold Crest Hotel on 22-23 July and 5-6 August, 2015,for 50 participants from NGOs and the public sector, the aim being to empower participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to carry out informational and educational activities against tobacco use in the community. Click here to…
On 16 January 2014, VISA collaborated with the Mauritius Institute of Health in the organization of a half–day dissemination workshop on a report entitled “Self-Reported Price of Cigarettes, Consumption and Compensatory Behaviours in a Cohort of Mauritian Smokers Before and After a Tax Increase”. Click here to see the programme of workshop Click here to…
A 2-day Training of Trainers workshop was held at Domaine Les Pailles for the youth cadre of the Ministry of Youth and Sports on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day 2014. Twenty-five officers were trained on different aspects of tobacco control, following which nine community-based projects were developed and implemented by the Ministry of…
In 2014, VISA completed the development of an educational tool for trainers which consists of a set of 110 slides addressing the different aspects of tobacco control. A professional agency was hired to undertake the development of the tool. The conception work is of high quality and the slides are attractive and appealing. It serves…
VISA organized three training workshops on smoking cessation with the technical assistance of Global Bridges. Two of the workshops were held in Mauritius, from 26-30 November 2012 for 40 participants and one in Rodrigues for 20 participants. Professor Lekan Ayo-Yusuffrom the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Professor Kola Okuyemi from the University of Minnesota, USA,…
