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Africa: Financing Health From Within – How Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar Taxes Can Support Africa’s Health Priorities

eriinfo.com1 month ago015 mins

Africa’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…

Africa: Chimps Regularly Consume Alcohol, Study Finds

eriinfo.com4 months ago07 mins

A new study has observed that chimpanzees regularly eat fermented fruit together, suggesting that alcohol consumption is more deeply rooted in human evolution than previously thought. Chimpanzees regularly consume fermented fruit in the wild – ingesting significant amounts of alcohol in the process, according to a new studypublished by Science. Researchers led by Aleksey Maro from the…