{"id":239178,"date":"2026-07-21T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-a-tax-on-sugary-drinks-in-egypt-could-reduce-disease-and-save-u-s-1-8-billion-in-healthcare-costs-modelling-study\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:37:55","slug":"egypt-a-tax-on-sugary-drinks-in-egypt-could-reduce-disease-and-save-u-s-1-8-billion-in-healthcare-costs-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-a-tax-on-sugary-drinks-in-egypt-could-reduce-disease-and-save-u-s-1-8-billion-in-healthcare-costs-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: A Tax On Sugary Drinks in Egypt Could Reduce Disease and Save U.S.$1.8 Billion in Healthcare Costs – Modelling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Non-communicable diseases – heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer – are no longer just a rich-country problem. Across Africa, they are becoming the leading cause of death, driven in part by a simple and overlooked culprit: what people drink.<\/p>\n

Globally<\/a>, 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases were attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 2020 alone, with the highest burdens falling on sub-Saharan Africa. A recent time-series study across nine…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Non-communicable diseases – heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer – are no longer just a rich-country problem. Across Africa, they are becoming the leading cause of death, driven in part by a simple and overlooked culprit: what people drink. Globally, 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6495,11509,5784,15254,4697,415,12370,19988,257,8391,7301,254,6056,54893,8352,50220],"class_list":["post-239178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-costs","tag-disease","tag-drinks","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-healthcare","tag-modelling","tag-news","tag-reduce","tag-save","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study","tag-sugary","tag-tax","tag-u-s-1-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239178","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}