The recent Multistakeholder Hearing on NCDs and Mental Health at the United Nations Head Quarters held on 2nd May, 2025, a key preparatory event for the Fourth United Nation High-Level Meeting (4UNHLM) on NCDs in September 2025, has concluded. However, the fight for justice, equity, and strengthened health systems for people living with or affected by NCDs and Mental Health continues. Read more
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Studies have shown that consumers rarely read labels on food items that come in a variety of options which accounts for the prevalence of NCDs such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases and brain impairment.
Food labels provide information encompassing a list of ingredients and nutrients as well as their proportions to guide consumers in making healthy food choices when shopping. Health professionals advise patients with certain disease conditions to refrain from foods high in sodium, trans-fat and sugar and if they are unable to read and understand food labels, they will not be able to decipher which foods are unhealthy for consumption. In various interviews, Mr. Labram Musah discusses why Ghana needs to adopt Front of Pack labelling Policies.
The CEO of Black Kulcha Music filed a suit against the FDA’s ban. He argued that the directive violated constitutional guarantees of equality before the law. The FDA’s directives discourage the use of celebrities in the promotion of alcoholic beverages via any medium. This policy is part of the efforts of the government of Ghana to protect children and young people from alcohol marketing. However, the industry ignored all this reality and argued that the child protection measure would rob the entertainment industry of potential streams of income.
The Ghana NCD Alliance in collaboration with other CSOs garners public support on why children need to be protected from celebrity endorsement of alcoholic beverages. Listen to CSOs actors make the case for public health over industry profit
