Category Archives: Webinar

Driving Change in Ghanaian Food Environment: Time to act is Now!

The Advocating for Health Project coalition, as part of the World Food Day celebrations, organized a virtual symposium to discuss the menace of sugar-sweetened sugar (SSBs). Led by the Ghana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAND), the symposium was organized to engage various stakeholders to drum home the need to focus on Ghana’s food environment…

Virtual Webinar – Get the facts on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

This virtual event mobilized public health practitioners, doctors, nurses, nutritionists, students, and other workers outside the health sector to be educated on the harmful effects of sugar- sweetened beverages (SSBs). The speakers at the event provided an overview of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ghana, facts about SSBs, readily available healthy alternatives and Health Taxes as…