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African Road Safety Charter comes into force
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (297+ words) The African Road Safety Charter entered into force on 12 March 2026. The Charter marks Africa's first continental and legally-binding road safety framework. Adopted by African Heads of State in 2016, 15 African Union Member States were required to ratify the Charter and deposit…...
WHO/Europe and the EU scale up the integration of arts and culture into health systems
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (540+ words) Second European Programme of Work WHO/Europe, supported by the European Union (EU), is scaling up its support to Eastern Partnership countries to integrate arts and culture into health systems, through a series of regional capacity-building workshops as catalysts for…...
Policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments: WHO guideline
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) This WHO guideline provides Member States with evidence-based recommendations and implementation considerations on policies to improve school food environments. It covers three areas: direct food provision in schools; nutrition standards or rules for foods and beverages served or sold at…...
Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2025
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (170+ words) This report provides a global assessment of taxes applied to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). It describes and qualitatively compares their design and provides the first global estimation of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countries. The assessment is based on…...
Global report on the use of alcohol taxes, 2025
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (156+ words) This report provides an assessment of taxes applied to alcoholic beverages at the global level. It qualitatively compares their design and provides estimates of standardized metrics to compare tax levels between countries, it is a second in a series since…...
Cheaper Drinks, Costly Consequences: Launch of the WHO global reports on the use of alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (158+ words) Cheaper Drinks, Costly Consequences: Launch of the WHO global reports on the use of alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes'World Health Organization (WHO) Cheaper Drinks, Costly Consequences: Launch of the WHO global reports on the use of alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage…...