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A number of Ugandans are strongly asking Parliament to give more priority to having the alcohol drinks control bill 2016 passed into law to help set proper guidelines for alcohol consumption in the country. The alcohol bill 2016 pushed as a private members bill by Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze Bakileke, seeks to […]
The consumption of alcohol in Uganda has reached its peak amongst the youths. Ugandans mainly consume cheapest packed beers in sachets. Alcohol in Uganda is mainly consumed by jobless people and foreigners. Drinking beers and talking cocaine is a common practice in Uganda. The government says the consumption of alcohol and drugs affects […]
Countries like America, United Kingdom and South Africa where many Ugandans migrate to get odd jobs are worried after researches revealed that 45% of the Ugandan youths wherever they are live on drugs and alcohol. This is contained in the research findings collected by Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL). The programmes director of UYDEL, […]
The New vision of Wednesday of Wednesday 16th June curried story that ‘‘three million Ugandans are Drunkards.’’ For a country struggling to bring down the high levels of poverty such a story is not good news to development advocates. The story even makes it sadness by indicting that it is actually the poor who consume […]
An official from the East African Center for Constitutional Development, Edrine Wanyama has appealed to the government of Uganda to ban the use of Sugar Molasses used to make Alcohol because, they are poorly processed and are of bad quality. Molasses are sugar bye-products commonly found near sugar processing industries of Kinyara Sugar works in […]
By Namutebi Patricia It is 6 pm and I am sailing on the mighty Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in the world. The huge waves keep flapping against the local man-made boat, I arrive ashore on Myende Island at 8 pm. I brave the last-minute moments of being carried off the boat. Uganda’s water industry is […]
The Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH)-Uganda, World Health Organisation (WHO)-Uganda, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Uganda and the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) has organized a Public Dialogue on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) scheduled to take place on Friday 13th March 2020 at the Imperial Royale […]
Delegates attending the 4th Youth Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (African region) Youth Parliament taking place Kampala, Uganda have called for strengthening of laws aimed at curbing alcoholism and drug abuse across Africa. During a sitting chaired by Deputy Speaker Mary Namaya(Malawi) a number of delegates said that many of the reasons youth engage in substance abuse […]
The ministry of health has agreed to be the lead promoter of the proposed Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill 2016 fronted by the Member of Parliament for Mukono Municipality, Betty Nambooze Bakireke. The principle medical officer in charge of mental health, control of alcohol and drug abuse, Dr.sheila Ndyanabangi says her ministry will lead the promotion […]
Mukono municipality area MP, Betty Nambooze Bakireke has started consultations over her intended alcohol bill when she met Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and fellow MPs seeking for their support to her private members bill that seeks to regulate the consumption of alcohol. The bill named “The alcoholic Control bill 2016” seeks to regulate the consumption, advertising […]