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 …

IMANI director, Franklin Cudjoe, former deputy head of the FDB, Mr. Kwamina Van-Ess and Mr. Andrew Akolaa, Marketing Manager of Kasapreko distilleries formally presented the draft alcohol policy to Hon. Dr. Sipa-Adjah Yankey, Ghana’s new Health Minister. Minister promised to study the draft and said hopefully, there would be no need to re-invent the wheel.
Franklin later joined the Minister of health and his Ghanaian delegation at a luncheon on M-Health projects organized by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the United States lobby agency, the Whitaker Group in …

A Workshop on Designing an Effective National Alcohol Policy for Ghana
IMANI Center for Policy and Education, a registered Ghanaian think-tank has been involved internationally in exchanging best practices on self-regulation of advertising and marketing of beverage alcohol. At the last regional workshop held in Cape Town from October 19-20, 2006, stakeholders (government, Industry and think–tanks) from across the world, resolved to:

Encourage Government, Industry and Public Health Partnerships on alcohol policy development
Encourage beverage alcohol companies to support Governments in the development of alcohol policies
Set standards for alcohol production, …