Experts say health taxes will curb NCDs

According to experts, health taxes remain among the most underutilised interventions in Uganda.

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(L-R) Dr Charles Oyoo Commissioner for NCDs at the Ministry of Health, Jim Arinaitwe, Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, Dr Eric Ssegujja, a health policy researcher at Makerere University School of Public Health and Prof Freddie Ssengooba is a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Planning, and Management at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences Makerere University interacting after the dissemination meeting for the Political Economy Analysis of Health Taxes in Uganda project. (Credit: Violet Nabatanzi)
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KAMPALA - Experts are calling for taxes on harmful products to curb the rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden in Uganda.

Health taxes are levies imposed on products that harm

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