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Disabilities Awareness Week

Sustainable Development Goals and YOUth

Children's Day: Key issues affecting our children in their communities

Poll to co-design a new youth skills service

Reimagine Education with NSSC and UNICEF (Results to PM Andrew Holness' Education Transformation Commission)

Distance learning (Ministry of Education, Youth & Information)

School suspensions poll (for National Secondary Students' Council)

Sexual health education in schools (HFLE) with JYAN

Action against violence in schools

#ENDviolence in Schools

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes

Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health

Child Month: Mental health poll with Jamaica Observer

Poll: Advertising unhealthy foods to children (Conducted for Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network and Healthy Caribbean Coalition)

Poll on Government's School Nutrition Policy, conducted with JYAN

MOHW poll to name new mental health campaign

Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines

Voting to name Mental Health Chatline

Mental health chatline name suggestions

Nutritional behaviours among Jamaican youth

Impact of COVID-19 on eating and exercise habits (conducted for UNICEF)

World AIDS Day Quiz with UNAIDS

COVID-19 regional poll 2: personal impact

COVID-19 regional poll 1: national response

CoronaVirus Information Centre

NFPB sexual and reproductive health

Suicide Prevention Bot – World Mental Health Day

Ministry of Health & Wellness Anxiety Test

HIV & sexual health

Adolescent and Youth Mental Health

Youth Mental Health and Suicide

Safer Internet Poll 2023 with Flow

Global cyberbullying poll

Social media influencers

U-Report Safer Internet Day contest with FLOW

Mental Health and Social Media

Safety & security

Corporal Punishment and Bullying

Child Month: Violence poll with Jamaica Observer

Spotlight Initiative - domestic abuse in COVID-19

Human Rights Day on December 10

Corporal Punishment (Office of the Children's Advocate)

Human trafficking

Volunteer for summer camps for children in ZOSO communities

Women's Day 2019

July 30 - World Day against Trafficking in People

Road Safety in Jamaica

Exploring the issue of crime in Jamaica

Youth Participation

Eyes Pon Di Budget Poll

FunDoo Feedback 2025

Youth Future Outlook Poll

Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Youth Action Summit Poll

Constitutional reform poll: Should Jamaica replace the king?

#YoungVoicesOfChange U-Report poll for EU-LAC Summit

World Children's Day 2021

Health

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes

April 17, 2026

108

RESPONDERS

98%

RESPONSE RATE

39%

34

61%

54

health

nutrition

TOTAL RESPONDERS

1

1. Have you heard about the proposed tax on sugary drinks in Jamaica?

108 responded out of 110 polled

2

2. How often do you drink sugary drinks per week?

106 responded out of 108 polled

3

3. If sugary drinks cost more, how would your drinking change?

105 responded out of 106 polled

4

4. Do you think sugary drinks affect young people's health?

105 responded out of 105 polled

5

5. How much do you think diet-related diseases (e.g. diabetes, high blood pressure) affect youths?

105 responded out of 105 polled

6

6. Do you think food & beverage companies care more about profits than people's health?

105 responded out of 105 polled

7

7. Do you support the tax on sugary drinks in Jamaica?

104 responded out of 105 polled

8

8. What else do you think could help reduce diseases like diabetes?

103 responded out of 104 polled

9

9. What do you think the Government should do to make the tax work better?

101 responded out of 103 polled

U-Matter: U-Report Mental Health Chatline launched

I am that happy person who also happens to have depression

Kyle Nunes: “My generation can support one another”

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