Africa: Sugary Drinks, Processed Foods, Alcohol and Tobacco Are Big Killers – Why the G20 Should Add Its Weight to Health Taxes

[The Conversation Africa] By 2030, non-communicable diseases will account for 75% of all deaths annually. Eight percent of these will be in the global south. Most of these diseases are what we call silent killers: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as certain types of cancer at increasingly younger ages.

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