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A team of tobacco control experts who have been meeting to review the Tobacco control bill have agreed to set specific deadlines and targets on when the bill should be presented to parliament for the first reading. The two day meeting sponsored by CTCA was aimed at...

The second Annual Performance Review for the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa ( CTCA) is currently under way in Kampala, from June 24-27, 2013.  The review was carried out by EnCompass, an International Independent Management consulting firm which facilitated the...

Government urged to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and Sponsorship Tobacco Control Stakeholders in Uganda today joined the rest of the world to mark World No Tobacco Day, under the theme, ‘ Ban tobacco advertising promotion and sponsorship’.  Today’s activities...

As the World prepares to mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31, Australia is pioneering in reducing the appeal of smoking  with the first plain tobacco packaging law. In  December 2012, Australia’s world-first laws on tobacco plain packaging came into full effect. Since...

  Tobacco control advocates in Uganda have appealed to the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to raise tobacco taxes because it is a WHO proven intervention to control the effects of tobacco and its use.  The team, from the Centre for Tobacco...

The first tobacco control coordination meeting has started today, April 24th 2013 in Kampala Uganda, hosted by the Ministry of health and Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa. The meeting aims at bringing stakeholders together to:     Agree on a coordination model, ...

The Focus for this year’s World No Tobacco Day  ( WNTD), May 31, 2013 is ;  Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship  The theme, selected by WHO TFI, is aimed at running a campaign geared towards; •spuring countries to implement WHO FCTC Article 13 and its...

A training on the health cost study for tobacco use is under way at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala with the aim of training participants on how to establish the costs attributed to tobacco use, ways of estimating those costs  as well as the step by step approach...

Member states of the East African Community ( EAC) have been called upon to accelerate the domestication of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and to take stock of the lessons learnt from the other  countries in the region.  The EAC Partners were...