Eswatini Tobacco Control
Investment Case Launch -
Joint event with UNDP
Every year, tobacco cost the lives of over 600 Emaswati, SZL 684 million in productivity losses and health expenditures to treat tobacco-related illnesses. Causes and consequences of tobacco are wide-ranging and interconnected, and can only be addressed through an integrated, whole-of-society, whole-of-government approach for prevention and control. This entails the challenging task of securing sustained and coordinated engagement from a variety of stakeholders with different interests, resources and roles.
The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) – through the FCTC 2030 project and its partners the United Nations Development Programme and the World Health Organization supported the development of an Investment Case for Tobacco Control in Eswatini.