
Foundation Against Respiratory Diseases
56 rue de la Concorde
B-1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
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Director Michel Pettiaux Project leader Phone: +32 (0)25181861 Fax: +32 (0)25123273 |
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Françoise Cousin
Project manager Phone: +32 (0)25181882 Fax: +32 (0)25123273 |
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Caroline Rasson
Head project manager Phone: +32 (0)25181865 Fax: +32 (0)25123273 |
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Samuel Piret
Documentalist Phone: +32 (0)25181874 Fax: +32 (0)25123279 |
FARES comes from the „Oeuvre Nationale Belge contre la Tuberculose“ (Belgian National Work Against Tuberculosis). It is divided into two services : Respiratory Diseases and Tobacco Prevention.
The first coordinates fight against tuberculosis. It is also implied into asthma and COPD. Its activities cover all Belgian French Community area.
The Tobacco Prevention Service is a reference and experts centre about tobacco. Its main activities are :
- form new tabacologs
- provide information by the specialized documentation centre
- coordinate the „Help Smoker Centres“ (Centres d’Aide aux Fumeurs = CAF) and provide
advice in tobacco cessation
- take part and/or organize sensibilization campaigns aiming smoking prevention
- insure tobacco cessation management help in various lifeplaces (pregnant women and
companions, sport and tobacco, health promotion program (youth and tobacco): the aim
of the program is to allow to 1st line professionnals having a framing mission with youth to
develop interventions in smoking cessation within a more general drug prevention frame and
a health promotion process, chicha and narguileh, others).