$5 million grant for tobacco control programme
New Delhi, Tuesday, June 01,2010: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $5 million to the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to strengthen the National Tobacco Control Programme in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, over a three-year period (2009-2012).

The grant provided for the project on Strengthening of Tobacco Control Efforts Through Innovative Partnerships and Strategies (STEPS) will provide the much-needed district-specific strategic response to the rapidly escalating global tobacco epidemic. Project STEPS will work in the following districts: Prakasam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Mahboodnagar, Karim Nagar and Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) and Kheda, Rajkot, Banaskantha, Anand and Surat (Gujarat).

Ref: The Hindu
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