South-South cooperation to support FCTC implementation

South-South cooperation is a broad framework for collaboration among countries of the South on various issues, including health policy. While the potential of this type of cooperation to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was recognized already at the first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP1)1, resource constraints in past years prevented any activities outlined in FCTC workplans to be delivered until 2012, when the first ever expert meeting on South-South cooperation for FCTC implementation took place.

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