{"id":9436,"date":"2025-10-27T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalvani.com\/en\/?p=9436"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:18:15","slug":"caphra-announces-asia-day-event-to-take-place-at-the-good-cop-2-0-conference-highlighting-harm-reduction-in-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalvani.com\/en\/caphra-announces-asia-day-event-to-take-place-at-the-good-cop-2-0-conference-highlighting-harm-reduction-in-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPHRA announces \u201cAsia Day\u201d event to take place at The Good Cop 2.0 Conference Highlighting Harm Reduction in Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"natio-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\" id=\"natio-1453603545\"><style>\r\n.ad {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\nmargin: 0 auto 12px;\r\nwidth: 100%;\r\nmax-width: 640px;\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<!-- <img class=\"ad\" src=\"\" alt=\"Ad\" \/> -->\r\n<img class=\"ad\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalvani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ad-GaneshJoshi.jpg\" alt=\"Ad\" \/>\r\n<img class=\"ad\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalvani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ad-NagarPalikaTehri.jpeg\" alt=\"Ad\" \/>\r\n<img class=\"ad\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalvani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ad-NagarNigamRishikesh.jpeg\" alt=\"Ad\" \/>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1847079717764170808\" data-legacy-message-id=\"19a2253791298438\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":zs\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":zr\" class=\"a3s aiL\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">MANILA, Philippines, Oct. 27, 2025: The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) today announced Asia Day \u2013 The Good Cop 2.0, to be held on 19 November 2025, in parallel with the WHO\u2019s COP11.Asia Day will bring together consumer advocates, public health experts, medical professionals, and policymakers to highlight the urgent need for proportionate regulation of reduced-risk products.<\/span><\/h3>\n<section>\n<article>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cAsia Pacific cannot afford another decade of \u2018quit or die\u2019 policies,\u201d said Clarisse Virgino, CAPHRA representative for the Philippines. \u201cHarm reduction has worked for HIV, alcohol, and drugs. It is hypocrisy to deny it for tobacco, especially when millions of lives are at stake.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator for CAPHRA \u201cAsia Day will not be focussed on slogans or ideology. Instead it will be about learning, listening, and engagement on the opportunities and challenges for Tobacco Harm Reduction in the Asia Pacific region.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This event will be a remedial moment \u2014 a chance to bring the conversation back to science, humanity, and common sense. The participants will explore consumer perspectives, medical and public-health evidence, the consequences of denialism, and end with a discussion on balancing innovation and public health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Asia Day is part of the Good COP 2.0 being run by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, an independent, consumer-focused event running alongside the FCTC COP11. It offers an open forum for the voices excluded from WHO\u2019s closed-door proceedings: consumers, independent scientists, and journalists. 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