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...
Over the last two decades The Gambia has put together a good collection of laws that encourage tobacco control. It has enacted the Tobacco Control Act and issued the Tobacco Control Regulations. It has ratified the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco...
Tobacco Control in The Gambia reached another milestone with new members being elected onto the National Tobacco Control Committee. A total of 32 new committee members were nominated by different ministries and departments and then appointed by the Ministry of...
Mobile caravans that drove across the countries, posters, stickers, T-shirts, messages on radio and TV and an article in the local newspapers. These are the initiatives that The Gambian health Department engaged in to tell locals the dangers of smoking during the...
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