The growing trend of women smoking is a concern to health experts. Charles Baguma, a coordinator at Uganda Health Communication Alliance, says according to a Global Youth Tobacco Survey done five years ago by the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, young females have overtaken …

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) bust a Shs3b cigarette smuggling racket following a tip off from their intelligence officers. The tax body on April 8, 2018 intercepted a brand new Toyota Premio at Kalerwe, a Kampala suburb on Gayaza Road and this would later lead them …

The Uganda Police has arrested eighteen people suspected of involvement in the sale of Shisha in various Entertainment hangouts in the Capital, Kampala. Shisha smoking, also called hookah, narghile, water pipe or hubble bubble smoking, is a way of tobacco smoking, sometimes mixed with fruit …

[Photo Source: Canadian Cancer Society] I enjoy having a meal in a Kafunda, well, for the most obvious reason, the food is cheap, secondly, Kafunda restaurants have the best cooked local foods but above all, I love them for the random conversations people have openly. …

About 36 people die every day from tobacco related diseases in Uganda. This translates into three commuter taxis full of people perishing as a result of a single substance. Mbarara, Western Uganda’s biggest town is amongst the fastest growing areas in Uganda. As any urban …

At least 17 people, including a South Sudan government official, were arrested in bars and detained on Saturday on allegations of smoking tobacco in public places. Police in Kampala said the suspects, one of whom identified himself as a minister in the East African country …

Today, Uganda Health Communication Alliance joined the community of Mbale District to mourn tobacco related deaths. Together with the district leaders, the people called for the strict implementation of the Tobacco Control Act 2015 to curb the tobacco related deaths. UHCA’s Coordinator Baguma Richard called …

On the 24th October 2018, a high-level stakeholder engagement meeting was held at the Kampala Golden Tulip Hotel, where GCRF tobacco control capacity program and the Center for Tobacco control in Africa (CTCA) launched the tobacco control capacity-building programme (TCCP) in Uganda. Dr. Hafsa Lukwata, …

Police are holding three suspects who were arrested during an operation conducted in bars selling Shisha. According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesman, Luke Owoyesigyire the operation was conducted in conjunction with the Uganda National Health Consumers Organization (UNHCO) recently. Owoyesigyire identified the suspects as; …