Mrs. Hilda Ochefu’s working visit to Cameroon

The sub-regional responsible for West Africa and Cameroon from the American NGO « Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids” came to inquire about the status of tobacco control in Cameroon.

Mrs Hilda Ochefu with C3T members

A tobacco producing country, Cameroon has an extrovert cigarette market of close to 90%. With more than 1 million smokers and its geographical position which places it at the heart of the Central Africa and enables at the same time to assure a connection with West Africa, Cameroon, is a bastion of Tobacco Control in Central Africa.

It is with this challenge that Mrs Hilda Ochefu, the West African responsible for the American NGO “Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids” came to feel the reality of tobacco control in Africa in miniature. During her stay from 16-19^th February, 2016), Mrs. Hilda Ochefu held numerous working meetings with actors of the civil society, the government and the parliament.