Uganda, Nov. 28 -- Uganda has been ranked the third best country in the world in regard to effective tobacco control.
The latest ranking by the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2020 produced by the Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC), pegs Uganda third after Brunei (1st) and France .
The Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index is a universal survey on how governments across the globe are responding to tobacco industry interference and protecting public health policies from commercial interests of tobacco industries as required under the World Health Organisation.
In Africa Uganda came first in 14 countries followed by Kenya in ninth position.
Ethiopia followed in 10th, Nigeria 15th, Sudan 19, Ghana 2...