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In early March, 2020, the world was hit by a pandemic of COID-19, which has affected the lives of millions global.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus and spreads primarily through contact with an infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface or objects that has the virus on it, and then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.

The government through the ministry of health adopted preventive stay home measures which limited nearly all physicalinteraction activities in the...

Background:

The COVID 19 pandemic globally has had a devastating negative impact especially in low income countries like Uganda who have fragile health system and can’t manage many cases. Governments declared lockdown and everything stood at stand still for over 75 days. Children and their families depending on small informal business closed, capital eaten up and didn’t know what to happen next.

Our entire 9 Drop in centers/safe spaces were closed and over 2000 slum youth and poor children scattered and a few went home. We received distress calls from some our young people we serve daily in...

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Alcohol Harm Prevention Project

Radio Talk Show Report

Discussion Topic: Situation analysis of Alcohol abuse among young during the COVID 19 lock down

Station: Tiger FM 102.5 frequency  located in Nansana Municipality

Date:11th June 2020; 9:00AM to 10:00AM         

Guests: Mr. Mutaawe Rogers; Senior Programme Manager & Mr. Lubega Andrew; Project Officer

Objectives:

• To discuss the situation of alcohol abuse among young people during the COVID 19 lock down
• To share experiences about the effects of risky behaviours among youths in Uganda.
• To offer...

TAUTAN PENGEMBANGAN PEMUDA UGANDA

SIARAN PERS
RE: Alkohol dan COVID-19; Dua pandemi bertabrakan 

Perkenalan:
 Di Uganda kami telah melihat lonjakan dan tingkat minum yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya yang menyebabkan peningkatan kekerasan dalam rumah tangga dan tingkat kecanduan. Beberapa pria menghabiskan lebih banyak waktu untuk minum dan karenanya mengalihkan uang yang dimaksudkan untuk makanan untuk membeli alkohol.
Fakta tentang alkohol dalam kaitannya dengan COVID 19
a) Mengonsumsi alkohol berkekuatan tinggi tidak membunuh virus COVID-19. Jika dipalsukan dengan metanol, dapat...

This free webinar-based training course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) is presented by Igor Koutsenok, MD, MS, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry.

Motivational Interviewing is an essential, client-centered, counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. We are absolutely thrilled to bring you this skills-building opportunity presented by a recognized expert in the field of MI.

The course consists of four sessions (originally held during June 2020).

Course Description

This is a...

The Smart Club Contract Concept: An Evidence-Based Primary Prevention Method for Children in East Africa

by Lubega Andrew (UYDEL)

The Contract Concept is a means or tools for children and adolescents to lead better lives with Human Rights, better school attendance and results and growing up without the burden of alcohol/drugs and other substances.

SMART’s contract method is locally based and includes components such as

• individual contracts with participating children / adolescents
• guardian's written approval
• temporary membership
• voluntarily to be a member (or abstain) and the right to...

Gereja Uganda telah melembagakan sebuah program yang akan membantu kaum muda untuk melindungi diri mereka dari alkoholisme dan penyalahgunaan narkoba. Program Sekolah Bebas Narkoba diluncurkan oleh Uskup Agung yang akan keluar, Pendeta Stanley Ntagali, di Sekolah Menengah Atas Mengo  pada hari Sabtu tanggal 15 Februari 2020. Berbicara kepada siswa, guru dan mitra yang menghiasi acara tersebut, Ntagali mengatakan bahwa penyalahgunaan narkoba di kalangan anak muda di sekolah meningkat, itulah sebabnya Gereja memutuskan untuk bertindak melawan kejahatan tersebut.

Koordinator Program 'Sekolah...

THE WORLD FEDERATION AGAINST DRUGS’ REGIONAL FORUM TO BE HELD ON 6th FEBRUARY, 2020

The World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD) is holding this year’s first Regional Forum in the East African Region. The Forum will be taking place on the 6th of February, 2019 in Kampala Uganda and it will be hosted by Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL). WFAD has over 40 member organizations in the East-African Region, who all do fantastic work within prevention, drug addiction treatment and/or recovery and this is why the forum was hosted in East Africa. The World Federation Against Drugs is a multilateral...

PERTEMUAN DIGITAL CABANG NASIONAL AFRIKA

Pertemuan Zoom dipandu oleh Jeff Lee yang mengundang Kapitel Nasional Afrika untuk menjadi bagian dari pertemuan tersebut. Pertemuan diadakan pada Selasa 14 Januari 2020 pukul 2 siang – 3 sore (EAT). Bab Nasional Uganda diwakili oleh Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) yaitu Bapak Rogers Mutaawe, Bapak Andrew Lubega dan Ibu Barbara Nakijoba.

Masalah yang dibahas meliputi;

1. Tinjauan risalah dari pertemuan terakhir dan proses di masa depan
2. Pembaruan tentang Aktivitas NC Regional Afrika (harap berikan masukan singkat tentang aktivitas Anda atau...

A preparatory meeting was held on 29th November 2019 at UYDEL office and they discussed about recruitment of members, updating of Uganda ISSUP website, the work plan for 2020, Launch of the ISSUP Chapter in April 2020 and future plans. The meeting also agreed to hold an initial meeting with identified members on 12th of December 2019 to get more input from members on the best way to run the ISSUP Chapter.

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Compiled by Andrew Lubega

 

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Psychoactive substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to be major problems around the world, taking a toll on global health and on social and economic functioning. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that, in 2015, about 250 million people between ages 15 and 64 used illicit substances at least once. Of those who use psychoactive substances, a significant number will develop substance use problems or SUDs. The 2015 UNODC survey found that about 29.5 million substance users suffer from SUDs, which means their use is harmful to the point they may...