{"id":26,"date":"2010-04-15T00:28:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=26"},"modified":"2010-04-15T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:28:05","slug":"helmet-factory-to-open-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2010\/04\/15\/helmet-factory-to-open-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmet Factory to Open in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ugandan website &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/D\/8\/220\/714757\">New Vision Online<\/a>,&#8221; the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiainjury.org\/main\/home.html\"> Asia Injury Prevention Foundation<\/a> is planing to open a factory to produce low-cost bicycle helmets in that country. The AIPF has already opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiainjury.org\/main\/protec.html\">factories <\/a>to meet the needs of the growing Asian helmet market with designs suitable for the tropical climate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in conjunction with helmet legislation and promotion programmes supported by the Federation International Automobile Foundation and the World Bank&#8217;s global road safety office, a new factory is proposed for Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether this factory is planned to meet Asian demand or will be used to support new helmet promotion campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>African bicycle taxis (boda-bodas) are an ideal target for helmet promotion. Ugandan statistics quoted in the news release suggest that bicycle and motorcycle fatalities are on the rise.\u00a0 Voluntary uptake of &#8220;loaner&#8221; helmets has been poor because of perceptions that these are &#8220;dirty and spread disease.&#8221; Relatively inexpensive personal helmets might be an aceptable solution.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ugandan website &#8220;New Vision Online,&#8221; the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation is planing to open a factory to produce low-cost bicycle helmets in that country. The AIPF has already opened factories to meet the needs of the growing Asian helmet market with designs suitable for the tropical climate. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2010\/04\/15\/helmet-factory-to-open-in-uganda\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}