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*Association Vapers India (AVI) said: “These international NGOs directly fund government departments and state tobacco control programs, which shouldn't be allowed as receiving money directly from private entities creates massive conflict. “While India moves to tighten FCRA laws, these foreign NGOs and their local grantees have broken and continue to break laws - one of them, Burning Brain Society, is filing court cases with this money which violates FCRA norms. So entrenched is this cartel that when a government official questioned this foreign funding, he was promptly booted out and the bar on the errant NGO quickly lifted. Emboldened, these foreign NGOs are now proposing highly discriminatory policies like banning less harmful alternatives in developing nations but not in the West -- yes, in countries where harm prevention is vital as people have low access to healthcare.” | *Association Vapers India (AVI) said: “These international NGOs directly fund government departments and state tobacco control programs, which shouldn't be allowed as receiving money directly from private entities creates massive conflict. “While India moves to tighten FCRA laws, these foreign NGOs and their local grantees have broken and continue to break laws - one of them, Burning Brain Society, is filing court cases with this money which violates FCRA norms. So entrenched is this cartel that when a government official questioned this foreign funding, he was promptly booted out and the bar on the errant NGO quickly lifted. Emboldened, these foreign NGOs are now proposing highly discriminatory policies like banning less harmful alternatives in developing nations but not in the West -- yes, in countries where harm prevention is vital as people have low access to healthcare.” | ||
===2015 Nov - [https://www.who.int/tobacco/about/partners/bloomberg/ind/en/ Tobacco control in India]=== | |||
*Keywords: World Health Organization (WHO), Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), Bloomberg Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI), MPOWER, National Tobacco Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Conference on Tobacco or Health, Ministry of Finance, National Consultation on Economics of Tobacco, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) | |||
*WHO has provided support for the National Tobacco Control Programme by building human resource capacity through training and hiring 18 tobacco control consultants (15 state consultants and three national consultants). These consultants have now been absorbed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as part of its staff to implement the national tobacco control programme. | |||
===2007 - [http://www.burningbrain.org/ Burning Brain Society]=== | ===2007 - [http://www.burningbrain.org/ Burning Brain Society]=== | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081221013345/http://www.burningbrain.org/ Archived Version (Way Back Machine)] | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081221013345/http://www.burningbrain.org/ Archived Version (Way Back Machine)] | ||
*[https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO&country_id=39&amount=&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=View+All Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program] | *[https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO&country_id=39&amount=&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=View+All Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program] (Note: On April 10, 2021 5:30am CST this link is not working. Reviewing the [https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/ main page], it works, but the links to "Previously Funded Projects" and "Bloomberg Initiative Partners" are no longer working. | ||
*Monitoring and Exposing Tobacco Industry Malpractice and disseminating that information to the media, law-enforcers and decision-makers in India. Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 | *Monitoring and Exposing Tobacco Industry Malpractice and disseminating that information to the media, law-enforcers and decision-makers in India. Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 | ||
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