ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2012
Global Fund collusion with liquor giant is a clear conflict of interest.
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- Tackling NCDs: The Need to Address Alcohol Industry Interference and Policy Incoherence Across Sectors Comment on "Towards Preventing and Managing Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Policy? An Analysis of Submissions to a Consultation on a Draft WHO Tool".International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Population-Level Interventions Targeting Risk Factors for Hypertension and Diabetes in Rwanda: A Situational Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Big Tobacco, Alcohol, and Food and NCDs in LMICs: An Inconvenient Truth and Call to Action Comment on "Addressing NCDs: Challenges From Industry Market Promotion and Interferences".International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- Sustainable development for global mental health: a typology and systematic evidence mapping of external actors in low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- Harmful Use of Alcohol: A Shadow over Sub-Saharan Africa in Need of Workable Solutions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- The alcohol industry, charities and policy influence in the UK.European journal of public health · 2014Article
- Global Fund needs to address conflict of interest.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2012Article
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Abstract
Alcohol is the third leading contributor to death and disability in South Africa, where SABMiller is the major supplier of malt beer, the most popular beverage consumed. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has recently included SABMiller as a recipient of funding for an education intervention aimed at minimizing alcohol-related harm, including HIV prevention, among men in drinking establishments. Global Fund support for this initiative is cause for concern. It is debatable whether these men are the best target group for the intervention, whether a drinking establishment is the best location, and whether the educational intervention itself is effective. Our experience is that the liquor industry is inclined to support alcohol interventions that will not affect drinking rates at a population level. These interventions allow the industry to simultaneously fulfil social and legal obligations to address the harmful use of alcohol while ensuring that sales and profits are maintained. Providing funding for a highly profitable industry that could afford to fund its own interventions also reduces the funds available for less well-resourced organizations. Do we take it that the problem of "corporate capture" has now spread to one of the largest health funders in the world?
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