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Alcohol Issues - Episode 2 Understanding the global governance of alcohol Movendi International's weekly conversation about the latest alcohol issues in policy and science and new alcohol industry revelations. For this second episode, we are following-up on last week’s conversation with Dag Rekve, senior technical officer for alcohol, other drugs and addictive behaviors at the World Health Organization and we are going more in depth on some of the most interesting points that Dag Rekve talked about. Regarding the weekly highlights of alcoohl issues in policy, science and Big Alcohol revelations, we discuss a brand new WHO policy brief on COVID-19 and NCDs, a brand new study on the link between alcohol and obesity, and we shed light on the alcohol industry's continuing market concentration with a story from Nigeria. Resources for the conversation with Dag Rekve, WHO and our in-depth comments In this follow-up episode, we explore the global governance of alcohol and examine in more detail the successes and failures of the last decade in global alcohol policy-making. "WHO: Countries Request Accelerated Action on Alcohol" }https://movendi.ngo/news/2020/02/10/who-countries-request-accelerated-action-on-alcohol-harm/ Guest expert blog post by Clare Slattery and Suzanne Zhou, McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer: "Where Next for the Global Governance of Alcohol and Public Health?" }https://movendi.ngo/blog/2020/07/27/where-next-for-the-global-governance-of-alcohol-and-public-health/ Fact sheet: Alcohol and NCDs }https://movendi.ngo/news/2019/05/20/new-resource-alcohol-and-ncds-harm-and-solutions/ Understanding alcohol as obstacle to development, including loss of human capital }https://movendi.ngo/the-issues/the-problem/obstacle-to-development/ and }https://movendi.ngo/news/2019/12/04/new-resource-how-alcohol-affects-the-sdgs/ All about the SAFER initiative, alcohol policy blue print and technical guidance Prioritizing action on alcohol for health and development - BMJ article }https://movendi.ngo/reports/prioritising-action-on-alcohol-for-health-and-development/ WHO: New Technical Guide for Alcohol Policy }https://movendi.ngo/news/2019/12/14/who-new-technical-guide-for-alcohol-policy/ New SAFER Initiative Launched at UN }https://movendi.ngo/news/2018/09/28/new-safer-initiative-launched-at-united-nations/ Resources for the weekly alcohol issues update In terms of alcohol policy news, there is a brand new policy brief about noncommunicable diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. }https://movendi.ngo/news/2020/09/11/who-new-policy-brief-on-ncds-during-covid-19/ This week’s alcohol issues in science also address alcohol’s role in the NCDs tsunami. A brand new study shows that alcohol plays a strong role in obesity. }https://movendi.ngo/news/2020/09/07/study-alcohol-use-linked-with-obesity/ This week’s alcohol issues concerning Big Alcohol highlights the issue of market concentration and domination. The story this week is about Heineken in Nigeria pushing for further for beer market dominationthrough increasing its power over Nigerian Breweries. }https://movendi.ngo/news/2020/09/11/nigeria-heineken-pushes-further-for-beer-market-domination/ and }https://movendi.ngo/news/2020/09/04/big-alcohol-more-market-concentration-and-alcohol-market-changes/ For feedback, questions and suggestions of future discussion topics, please get in touch at: info@movendi.ngo
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