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Ethiopia Takes Bold Strides on Health Taxes to Drive Universal Health Coverage WHO applauds Parliament and Ministry of Health for championing legislative reforms on health taxes Adama, Ethiopia | June 2025

Glad to see this in #Ethiopia: www.afro.who.int/countries/et...

Health Taxes 3 by 35 Initiative The 3 by 35 Initiative aims to revitalize health taxes as a powerful tool to reduce harmful consumption, save lives, and generate vital public revenue.

The Alliance proudly supports @who.int new #3by35 Initiative – raising taxes on tobacco, alcohol & sugary drinks to save lives and fund stronger health systems.

Research we have supported shows health taxes work. Time to turn evidence into action.

🔗 www.who.int/initiatives/...

Infographic with the headline: 'Alcohol consumption is rising among young people, leading to higher risks of'. Below the text are three boxes labeled: 'Heart diseases', 'Liver inflammation', and 'Certain types of cancer'.

Tax harmful products, not people.

Alcohol consumption can impact your mental health & lead to higher risks of heart disease & cancers.

WHO calls on countries to raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol & sugary drinks to save lives & invest in health. 🔗 bit.ly/40A3T3N #Tax4Health

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

By me: leading UN climate special rapporteur, Elisa Morgera, urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying, advertising, fracking, subsidies

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Many countries are facing a severe health financing crunch. Health budgets have been under pressure and dramatic cuts in official development assistance have turned the screw even tighter. Now is the time to accelerate the transition to sustainable health financing: bit.ly/g7Canada #G7

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

Inception meeting sets the stage for new implementation research to improve noncommunicable disease service delivery across eight countries The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research convened an inception workshop at the beginning of May to launch a new portfolio of implementation research projects focused on strengthening noncom...

Happy to share this exciting new work we are doing with fantastic teams in eight countries to improve #NCD service delivery ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/new...

Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them | Context by TRF The promotion of oil, coal and gas is poisoning our environment, driving climate change and slowing the clean energy transition

🛑 Banning #fossilfuels ads is an essential #publichealth intervention. "Like with tobacco, it's about removing the industry's platform to mislead the public" write @jenimiller.bsky.social &
Jemilah Mahmood @sustaincosm.bsky.social
www.context.news/just-transit...

$2.1 billion is the equivalent of 🌍 military expenditure every 8h

$2.1 billion is the price of 1 stealth bomber

$2.1 billion is 1/4 of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising & promotion every year.

It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable in our world.

#WHA78

Panellists gather at the lunchtime side event called Health taxes for a healthy future in Geneva.

At a #WHA78 side event, countries shared how #HealthTaxes can fund systems & save lives.

Read highlights from Tonga, Thailand, Ghana & the Philippines, plus reflections from @HelenClarkNZ, WHO & partners: ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/new...

We are here to serve not our own interests, but the eight billion people of our world;

To leave a heritage for those who come after us;

And to work together for a healthier, more peaceful and more equitable world.

#WHA78

How the World’s Most Powerful Corporations Have Fought Accountability for Climate Change - Inside Climate News A new report draws on internal company documents and other public records to comprehensively outline the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to mislead the public and avoid paying for their p...

Fossil fuel companies spent decades misleading the public about what they knew about climate change and the dangers of the products they were selling.

A new report details how those companies did it—and how their efforts are evolving today

insideclimatenews.org/news/1405202...

Health taxes for a healthy future: realizing fiscal opportunities for health and health care financing Every year, more than 10 million people die unnecessarily from consuming tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises constraining fiscal space, financi...

Hope to see you on Monday in Geneva to talk about #healthtaxes with @helenclarknz.bsky.social @alliancehpsr.bsky.social over lunch ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/eve...

Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.

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Please join us next Monday to talk about health taxes 👇

Please join us next Monday to talk about health taxes 👇

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We're looking forward to this event during #WHA78 – organized by the Alliance a co-sponsored by the gov'ts of Ethiopia, Japan, Norway & Philippines.

Navigating health financing cliffs: learning for a new era in global health

🔗 Join in person > ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/eve...

Will you be in Geneva for #WHA78? Join the Alliance's side event on Fri evening, Navigating health financing cliffs: learning for a new era in global health

Speakers incl Helen Clark & Ethiopia’s Health Minister.

Register to join us in person!
🔗 ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/eve...

Bravo Madhu!

Call for proposals: Improving climate and health policy-making through applied systems thinking. Deadline is next Monday, 5 May 2025, 23:59 CEST.

Deadline approaching for our RFP on Improving climate & health policy-making through applied systems thinking

Eligible countries: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mozambique, Nepal & Uganda.

We are only accepting submissions via our new online platform.

Info > ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article) These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New #pandemicagreement finalised in Geneva after 3+ years of talks. At a time when multilateralism is under threat, @WHO Member States have joined together to say that we will defeat the next pandemic threat in the only way possible: by working together”. borneobulletin.com.bn/who-countrie...

WHO countries agree on technology transfers in next pandemic – DW – 04/16/2025 Members of the World Health Organization agreed to the draft text of a landmark treaty to handle future pandemics. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "multilateralism is alive and well."

Some good news www.dw.com/en/who-count...

We launched this call earlier this week. Do take a look and share with your networks!

Impact of health systems interventions in primary health settings on type 2 diabetes care and health outcomes among adults in West Africa: A systematic review Type 2 diabetes is ambulatory care sensitive and adequate outpatient primary care supported by strong functional health systems can reduce avoidable complications and related mortality. A large body o...

Pleased to see #systematicreview out in @plosone.org led by Eugene Bondzie from Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons @dinabalabanova.bsky.social @robertmarten.bsky.social @alliancehpsr.bsky.social @hsr-lshtm.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New @alliancehpsr.bsky.social call for proposals on improving health and climate policy making through applied systems thinking in #Iran, #Mozambique, #Nepal and #Uganda. Check it out here: ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

New call for proposals: Improving climate and health policy-making through applied systems thinking

Deadline: 5 May 2025, 23:59 CEST

Eligible countries: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mozambique, Nepal and Uganda

More at: ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

New @alliancehpsr.bsky.social call for proposals on improving health and climate policy making through applied systems thinking in #Iran, #Mozambique, #Nepal and #Uganda. Check it out here: ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Diageo describes @who.int-led public health efforts as "unprecedented challenges" to their business model.

Translation: "We don't like measures aimed at protecting public health, because they might affect our profits."

Corporate profit shouldn't come before people's health.