Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, shared a post on X:
“One of the best tools to mobilize domestic funding for health is applying health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks. While taxation reduces the consumption of these harmful products and therefore the disease burden associated with them, it also generates income for the government.
Many countries have shown that this is a powerful tool for health:
- The Philippines expanded health insurance to more than 15 million families.
- Lithuania reduced the all-cause mortality rate.
- The UK reduced obesity rates among girls aged 10-11.
WHO looks forward to supporting more countries to design and implement health taxes to protect health and to transition away from aid dependency towards sustainable self-reliance
WHO 3 by 35 initiative.”
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