by Candice | Apr 16, 2021 | News, News, The Gambia
As the coronavirus spreads across the continent, countries need to continue to encourage citizens to maintain the measures that protect them from getting the virus. This includes social distancing, wearing masks and washing their hands. Departments of Health also have...
by Candice | Mar 19, 2021 | News, News
With the theme Tobacco Free Africa: An urgent call for joint action, the aim of the conference is to bring together all the tobacco control actors on the continent. The conference will run over four days from September 27 until 30. Over the four days, there...
by Candice | Mar 15, 2021 | News, News
Tobacco control policies used in African countries have mostly been informed by research designed and conducted to answer questions to provide solutions for developed settings. Very few policies are is based on tobacco control research generated by researchers on the...
by Candice | Jan 21, 2021 | News
It’s estimated that about 20% of adults who live or work indoors in Uganda are exposed to second-hand smoke. What isn’t known what percentage of tour drivers and guides suffer the same fate. Uganda’s tobacco control law restricts smoking to designated smoking areas...
by Candice | Jan 18, 2021 | News
Why do young people smoke? This is a question that has baffled many tobacco control researchers, hoping to discourage adolescents and young people from taking up a harmful that can have negative consequences on their health later in life. Studies in Côte...
by Candice | Jan 15, 2021 | News
Various studies have shown that there are certain periods of the year where farmers in Zambia are subjected to food insecurity. Findings from a Tobacco Farmers Survey conducted in Zambia show that some farmers ran out of maize that they grew on their own...
