by CTCA | Aug 15, 2012 | News
Kampala; August 15, 2012 CTCA applauds the court ruling on Australia’s ‘plain packaging’ law The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa ( CTCA) congratulates and applauds the Australian government for the huge win on plain packaging on cigarette packs. In a landmark...
by CTCA | Aug 4, 2012 | News
Uganda’s president Yoweri K. Museveni has promised to sign the Tobacco Contol Bill as soon as it gets to his office. The president was on Saturday August 4th visiting the CTCA-MakSPH stall during the launch of the celebrations to mark 90 years of Makerere...
by CTCA | Jul 26, 2012 | News
For the first time ever since the process of developing a tobacco control bill in Uganda started, the tobacco control legislators and advocates had a public interface with the tobacco Industry to discuss the tobacco control bill 2012. This was during a public hearing...
by CTCA | Jul 12, 2012 | News
One of the key recommendations from CTCA’s just concluded Annual Performance review is the strong need to leverage partnerships. It is against this background that CTCA has developed a collaborative strategy with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids ( CTFK). The two...
by CTCA | Jul 11, 2012 | News
In SummaryConsumption trend. The number of people consuming tobacco has grown from 1 billion three years ago to 2.3 billion. The smoking incidence is higher in Kenya, followed by DR Congo and then Uganda at between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of the population. The...
by CTCA | Jul 9, 2012 | News
The first Annual Performance Review for the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa ( CTCA) has ended with partners re-affirming their commitment to the tobacco control agenda in Africa. The review workshop, July 4-5th 2012, was attended by over thirty global partners...
