AAMI Emergency Meeting
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Wed, 22/07/09 – 4:32 | No Comment

Association of Alcohol Manufacturers and Importers (AAMI) will hold an Emergency Meeting on Thursday, July 24th, 2009. The time will be from 11:30 AM -12:30PM at the Golden Tulip Hotel.
The Meeting would be held …

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Meeting with Ghana’s Minister of Health
Thu, 31/01/08 – 18:09 | No Comment
Meeting with Ghana’s Minister of Health

IMANI’s Executive Director, Franklin Cudjoe and Former Deputy Director of Food and Drugs Board, Mr Kwamina Van Ess, met with Ghana’s Health Minister to discuss health issues.
The discussion focused on Ghana’s position on the WHO’s …

Second National Alcohol Policy Workshop
Thu, 29/11/07 – 10:18 | No Comment
Second National Alcohol Policy Workshop

Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Thursday, November 29, 2007
Two and a half months earlier, IMANI convened the first workshop that brought alcoholic beverage manufacturers and sector regulator, the Food and Drugs Board together to lay the …

First National Alcohol Policy Workshop
Thu, 29/11/07 – 10:16 | No Comment
First National Alcohol Policy Workshop

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 …

Joy FM Interview on Alcohol Ban
Wed, 10/10/07 – 6:40 | No Comment
Joy FM Interview on Alcohol Ban

Franklin Cudjoe rails against the presumption that decent alcohol advertisements have debilitating effect on minors.
In the interview, Franklin argues for contextual empirical evidence to back FDB’s claims. He essentially argues that bans induce black …

Please lift the ban on Alchoholic advertisements
Thu, 30/08/07 – 7:52 | No Comment
Please lift the ban on Alchoholic advertisements

Recently the Food and Drugs Board issued a fiat against advertisements of hard liquor and bitters. The FDB’s excuse was that manufacturers of alcohol have misconstrued market authorisation given them to mean running advertisements ad …

IMANI Wins Alcohol Advertisement Policy Battle
Thu, 30/08/07 – 6:21 | No Comment
IMANI Wins Alcohol Advertisement Policy Battle

Following recent media, as well as roundtable discussion on advertisement alcoholic beverages generated by IMANI and the Ghanaian Food and Drugs Board, Franklin Cudjoe and the F&D Board, successfully wrote, signed and executed a press …

The Quest for National Sobriety
Fri, 13/04/07 – 7:48 | No Comment
The Quest for National Sobriety

When Mark Twain said “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting”, perhaps one thing he didn’t anticipate will happen when alcohol is taken in excess is its harm to the brain, liver, heart, …

International Center for Alcohol Policy 1st Regional Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa
Tue, 31/10/06 – 8:10 | Comments Off
International Center for Alcohol Policy 1st Regional Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa

In October 2006, IMANI’s CEO facilitated a Ghanaian delegation to the first regional meeting of ICAP. Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, whose IMANI Center was later to facilitate Ghana’s draft policy on alcohol contributed to the …