Referrals to UK gaming addiction clinic triple in year of lockdowns theguardian.com/society/2021/j…

Let's hope so. Loot boxes are normalising gambling for our children. thetimes.co.uk/article/game-o…

Junius Sichali: No services for problem gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa except for few countries like Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Kenya & Botswana. #Conference #SSA #PublicHealth #Gambling Junious Sichali Chris Bunn 🦋 MEIRU MALAWI

Brilliant piece of culture jamming! Undermining industry narratives in advertising. Gambling in SSA day conf @glagamres

📣 Excited about the latest publication : The Contribution of Sport to the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Commonwealth Games Associations by Dr Haydn Morgan, Anthony Bush and Darragh McGee of University of Bath 📚 Get your free copy here jsfd.org/2021/08/23/the…

BBC News (World) has started advertising gambling products. This appeared as I watched in #malawi. The advert emphasises ‘endless’ and ‘rapid’ play, which we know can be harmful. #CDoH @thereal_tunde Junious Sichali Isaac Phiri Gerda Reith Darragh McGee Virve Marionneau

Layered Gambling Adverts on my favourite "score-checking" website. As a football fan, this is really messy. Commercialised gambling everywhere. This is unbecoming Chris Bunn 🦋 Junious Sichali Darragh McGee Gerda Reith Heather Wardle Robin Ireland Greo

Gambling Realities Africa is a collective of researchers and practitioners which brings critical, evidence-based research to discussions and action to understand gambling and to reduce gambling related harms across sub-Saharan Africa. ... #Gambling #GamblingRealities #SSA

We held our inaugural conference under the theme: "Exploring the rapid Growth of Commercialised Gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa" on 14th July 2021 via Zoom. The conference attracted 71 participants from across the region and beyond. ... 🔗 gambling-realities-africa.net/events-2/ #Health #SSA

Last but not least, Paper 8: Regulation of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): preliminary findings from a comparative policy analysis – Junious Sichali Junious Sichali gambling-realities-africa.net/2021-inaugural… #GamblingRealities #Health #SSA #Malawi #GRACon

Great work from Junious Sichali as part of our The British Academy study, led by Darragh McGee with colleagues from University of Ghana Joana Salish Yendork and Franklin Glozah

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Important and powerful work: Case Report: A gambling-related suicide in rural Malawi Junious Mabo Sichali et al., published by WellcomeOpenResearch wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-308…

This is painful to read - 16 year old boy dies through gambling-related suicide in Malawi. Powerful verbal autopsy, making direct links with the spread of commercial gambling throughout the country. GamblingRealitiesAfrica

Commercial gambling has grown at an incredible rate in #Malawi. Now the harms are starting to emerge. The price of a minor’s life: £20? Led by the brilliant Junious Sichali MEIRU MALAWI UofG Soc & Pol Sci Case Report: A #gambling-related #suicide in rural Malawi. dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellc…

The main report contains an exec summary, an overview of data exploitation in the gambling industry, an overview of the marketing+risk surveillance industry, a brief explainer on how digital tracking on the web works, and of course, all the actual findings cdn.sanity.io/files/btrsclf0…

"It's going to be a mess. A f--king bloodbath." For Global Sport Matters, I wrote about what legalized sports betting in the US may mean for gambling addiction, and how we're failing to learn the lessons of the UK: globalsportmatters.com/culture/2022/0…

Sports betting evenues are projected to exceed $19 billion if all states follow suit, but roughly 5% of American bettors could be already classified as "problem gamblers," reports Patrick Hruby, meaning the wave could crash sooner than we realize: globalsportmatters.com/culture/2022/0…