Advocacy for effective fiscal policies for health can strengthen the resilience of health systems hit by the COVID-19 crisis, while accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Agenda and Universal Health Coverage. These policies often focus on the use of excise taxes to raise the prices of health-harming products—including tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages—which reduces consumption, prevents disease, saves lives and raises revenues. In this event advocates from around the world spoke about what it takes to get these measures passed—and implemented. The event was simultaneously interpreted in French and Spanish.
