IMANI director, Franklin Cudjoe met with Ghana’s Minister of Health at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Conference in Accra on e-Health held in Accra between June 10-June 11.

Franklin reminded the Minister about the alcohol policy and he said “Yes, it is very important eh?”. Franklin promised to follow up with a reminder to the Minister on an August 2009 deadline for governments to submit preliminary reports on efforts to draft policies on alcohol.

Franklin was speaking at the UN conference on Mobile Pedigree, the latest mobile-phone based drug authentication scheme partly invented by Bright Simons, Franklin’s assistant at IMANI and AfricanLiberty.org