African states rally for greater tobacco control
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Uganda’s principal medical officer, who is also the tobacco control focal person in that country, Sheila Ndyanabangi, said this at the just ended Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents Training in Kampala.
“We need to form a network of African tobacco control movement because the same tactics that the tobacco industry uses in Uganda, they will use in Kenya and elsewhere in the continent,” she said.
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