Alcohol policy is becoming a truly global issue

DOI: 10.2478/v10199-011-0001-8
In the face of opposition from alcohol-producing countries, Cuba in particular, the Swedish initiative for global action on the harmful use of alcohol in the 2007 World Health Assembly (WHA) came to nothing. The following year, however, an initiative to create an alcohol strategy – this time proposed by three African nations – resulted in a WHA resolution that requested the WHO to develop a global strategy on combating the harmful use of alcohol.
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