The European Union has announced an initial humanitarian assistance package of €1.9bn for 2025, with €510m earmarked for Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
New research has found that about 2.2 million new diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cases of cardiovascular disease may be attributed to sugar-sweetened sodas and juices each year.
The consumption of sugary drinks contributed to an estimated 184,000 deaths worldwide in 2010. Just a decade later, that number had nearly doubled. A new study published Monday in Nature Medicine finds sugary drink consumption contributed to 340,
American researchers found that in Sub-Saharan Africa sugar-sweetened drinks contributed ... cases and more than 11% of new cases of cardiovascular disease. Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa have been particularly hard hit, according to a study by ...
One in five new type 2 diabetes cases in Sub-Saharan Africa and a quarter of those in Latin America and the Caribbean are attributable to sugary drinks