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October 15, 2025

The Intentional Youth Africa Initiative Festival (TIYI-FEST) 2025

Empowering Africa’s Youth Through Purpose, Creativity, and Intentional Living On Thursday, 1st May 2025, the vibrant township of Atteridgeville, South Africa, came alive with rhythm, colour, and youthful energy as the Intentional Youth Africa Initiative (TIYI Africa), in collaboration with the Pheli Youth Conference Forum, hosted the maiden edition of…

July 15, 2025

Reflecting on my participation at the World Conference on Tobacco Control, 2025

It was rewarding and exciting to attend the 2025 World Conference on Tobacco Control (WCTC) held in Dublin, Ireland. Having been postponed (as the 18th World Conference on Tobacco or Health) in 2021 due to the COVDI-19 pandemic, it was great for tobacco control researchers, advocates, funders; young and old,…

May 30, 2025

Unmasking the appeal: exposing the tactics of the tobacco and nicotine industry

May 31st every year is set aside to remind the world of the devastating impact of tobacco on humankind and to have a conversation about what we all can do to bring an end to the tobacco epidemic.