Foundation Against Respiratory Diseases
56 rue de la Concorde
B-1050 Bruxelles

Belgium

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Project Leader

Director Michel Pettiaux Project leader  Phone: +32 (0)25181861  Fax: +32 (0)25123273  Contact

Project Staff

Françoise Cousin Project manager  Phone: +32 (0)25181882  Fax: +32 (0)25123273  Contact

Caroline Rasson Head project manager  Phone: +32 (0)25181865  Fax: +32 (0)25123273  Contact

Samuel Piret Documentalist  Phone: +32 (0)25181874  Fax: +32 (0)25123279  Contact

Institute Presentation

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).