La Coalition contre la drogue de la division Nansana a eu la chance de visiter l’un des centres de santé de la division, appelé Nabweru Health Centre III, et a pu interagir avec le médecin responsable et d’autres travailleurs médicaux sur les problèmes de drogue et leurs contre-mesures.

Le Dr Hussein Mwanje, médecin responsable du centre de santé III de Nabweru, a exhorté les Ougandais à s’abstenir de consommer des drogues comme la marijuana, car elles mettent leur santé en danger, et il a connu une augmentation de la consommation de drogues pendant le Covid-19.

Lorsque les jeunes consomment...

SOUMISSION DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE DES ONG À LA MISSION OMS-SAFER sur l’alcool en Ouganda

Compilé par :

Alliance ougandaise pour la politique en matière d’alcool (UAPA)

                     et

Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) (en anglais seulement)

Kampala - Ouganda. 24 novembre 2021

UYDEL NEWSLETTER
MAY 2021 Edition 1, Volume 1

The Annual Meeting will be held on March 2-5 2022, and is currently scheduled to take place at the Edinburgh International Conference Center in Edinburgh, Scotland.  

The SRNT 2022 Annual Meeting may be a hybrid (part in person, part virtual) or entirely virtual, depending on how things play out in the coming months. A final decision about the meeting format (face-to-face hybrid virtual component vs. entirely virtual) will not be made for some time. In the meantime, attendees should not hesitate to submit for fear of being unable to travel. Rest assured that the meeting, no matter the chosen...

KYDA presented a poster on family therapy interventions taking place at their centre during the second Uganda Alcohol Policy Conference. Family therapy is a collection of therapeutic approaches that share a belief in family-level assessment and intervention. 

The poster details the objectives and approach used in these family therapy interventions, and presents a series of recommendations in the conclusion.

Line Up Live Up  is a UNODC life skills evidence-informed training programme – that target individual risk factors can use sport to achieve positive skills formation and promote social development of a young person

The Line Up Live Up training curriculum is aimed at developing life skills through sports, Sport is a potent vehicle for the promotion of positive role models and constructive behaviour change. thus contributing to risks mitigation and protective factors formation. Targeting individual level, the training curriculum helps to reduce the risks of crime, violence and drug use through...

Uganda Has now officially started training in harm reduction and has created Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) Clinics in one of its National referral Mental Hospital Alcohol and Drug Unit.

The training is ongoing for new and existing staff to run this new facility and MAT clients will be enrolled this coming month. 

A special thanks to all the efforts of Dr David Basangwa whose dream this is has now become a reality.