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...
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 University....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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