The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, has hosted legislators from Tanzania, who visited Uganda to learn from their fellow MPs, about the process of enacting a Tobacco Control bill. The visiting team was led by Hon. Dr. Faustine Englebet Ndunglile,...
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CTCA and WHO Engage UN Country Team in Uganda
The UN Resident Coordinator for Uganda, Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onochie,has assured WHO and the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa ( CTCA) of the commitment of the UN Agencies to support tobacco control. This was communicated in response to a brief address to the UN...
WHO Urges Countries to Speed up Implementation of the Time-Bound FCTC Provisions
Johannesburg, South Africa: 29th February 2013:- Countries that signed and ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) have been urged to speed up the implementation of the time bound provisions of the Protocol to avoid faulting the provision of...
Members of Parliament from the tobacco growing districts join advocacy campaign for the Tobacco Control Bill 2012
Members of Parliament from the tobacco growing districts have unanimously resolved to support the Uganda Tobacco control Bill, 2012. The resolution was arrived at during a meeting held between members of the Parliamentary Forum on Non-Communicable Diseases ( PFNCDs)...
Conference of the Parties adopts Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products ( ITP)
Seoul, Republic of Korea -Novembre 13, 2012 : By the end of the first day, the conference had adopted the Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products ( ITP) adopted without amendments. The Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO...
Agreement reached on a Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products
Seoul, Republic of Korea -November 13, 2012 : The Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( COP 5) opened on Monday November 12 with a call on delegates to continue using science and evidence with supportive...
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