{"id":9080,"date":"2025-12-14T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/africa-financing-health-from-within-how-tobacco-alcohol-and-sugar-taxes-can-support-africas-health-priorities\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:15:21","slug":"africa-financing-health-from-within-how-tobacco-alcohol-and-sugar-taxes-can-support-africas-health-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/africa-financing-health-from-within-how-tobacco-alcohol-and-sugar-taxes-can-support-africas-health-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Financing Health From Within &#8211; How Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar Taxes Can Support Africa&#8217;s Health Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"88\">Africa&#8217;s health sector is facing an unprecedented funding crisis, driven in part by a sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/africas-health-financing-new-era-concept-paper-april-2025#:~:text=decline%20of%2070%25%20in%20Official%20Development%20Assistance%20(ODA)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decline<\/a> in external health aid, which has fallen by 70% between 2021 and 2025. This shortfall is made worse by a rapidly expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/data.one.org\/analysis\/african-debt#:~:text=21%20low%20income%20African%20countries%20are%20either%20bankrupt%20or%20at%20high%20risk%20of%20debt%20distress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debt burden<\/a> in African countries. In 2025, African countries are projected to spend about <a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/news-item\/africas-health-financing-in-a-new-era-april-2025\/#:~:text=to%20service%20USD%2081%20billion%20by%202025%E2%80%94surpassing%20anticipated%20external%20financing%20inflows%E2%80%94further%20eroding%20fiscal%20space%20for%20health%20investments.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USD 81 billion on debt repayments,<\/a> a figure that exceeds anticipated foreign funding inflows. These converging pressures critically undermine the fiscal capacity needed to build resilient health systems, leaving countries exposed to future health security threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Many <a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/news-item\/africas-health-financing-in-a-new-era-april-2025\/#:~:text=over%2030%20AU%20member%20states%20remain%20well%20below%20the%2010%25%20benchmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s health sector is facing an unprecedented funding crisis, driven in part by a sharp decline in external health aid, which has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}