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Royal Health Awareness Society
Annual Report 2018

ADVOCACY

RHAS advocacy efforts have been focused on two main issues: Non-Communicable Diseases
(NCDs) Prevention and Tobacco Control.

2018 Achievements and Results: places. Amman city was selected as part
of the “Bloomberg Philanthropies Healthy
• RHAS attended the UN high- level meeting Cities Initiative. Under this collaboration,
RHAS conducted a series of awareness
on NCDs in New York, and advocated sessions for GAM employees and owners
along with international civil society to of touristic restaurants on tobacco control
improve and support NCDs preventive and and harmful effects of tobacco; conducted
management services. awareness campaigns in 3 public parks to
ban the smoking of shisha and cigarettes
• RHAS, along with Jordan NCD Alliance in those areas; and conducted the second
“Generations Breathing” workshop and
members, developed and launched competition to public schools within
NCDs public social media awareness and Amman for tobacco control school based
advocacy campaign to raise awareness initiative, under the patronage of the
about NCDs and their risk factors, and Mayor of Amman.
inform public about Jordan’s participation
at the UNHLM for NCDs. • RHAS presented the role of civil society

• RHAS in partnership with AmeriCares in a workshop about online promotion of
tobacco products, organized by GAM, the
and the University of Illinois at Urbana Electronic Crimes Division (Public Security
Champaign, initiated a research project to Department), and Amman Chamber of
assess the impact of Healthy Community Commerce.
Clinic to advocate for importance of
preventive services and to support the • RHAS continued to participate in regular
institutionalization of HCC within MOH
primary health care. meetings organized by WHO to build the
FCTC strategy and action plan, as well as
• RHAS participated in the WHO Global visits to UN agencies in Jordan to support
the enforcement of smoking ban policies
Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable within their premises in Jordan.
Financing of Noncommunicable Disease
(NCD) Prevention and Control Copenhagen, • RHAS worked with a national committee
Denmark
chaired by MOH to present a position paper
• RHAS became an official member of the against Heated Tobacco Products.

World Heart Federation, and participated
in the global campaign on the World Heart
Day: Make your heart promise, through
social media and school based activities.

• RHAS worked with Greater Amman

Municipality (GAM) towards enforcing
public health law to ban smoking in public

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