{"id":216648,"date":"2025-12-14T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-financing-health-from-within-how-tobacco-alcohol-and-sugar-taxes-can-support-africas-health-priorities\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:49:53","slug":"africa-financing-health-from-within-how-tobacco-alcohol-and-sugar-taxes-can-support-africas-health-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/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><\/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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/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 fallen by 70% between 2021 and 2025. This shortfall is made worse by a rapidly expanding debt burden in African countries. In 2025, African countries are projected to spend about USD 81 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00360203:66802602474f16467dfae4e53314fb7c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6287,8656,12412,5731,257,393,12200,254,11531,6096,12062,4456],"class_list":["post-216648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-alcohol","tag-financing","tag-health","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-priorities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugar","tag-support","tag-taxes","tag-tobacco"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00360203:66802602474f16467dfae4e53314fb7c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}