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SUMMARY:Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax 
 on sugar-sweetened beverages - Nicholas Stacey\, Department of Health Poli
 cy\, London School of Economics and Political Science &amp\; SAMRC Centre 
 for Health Economics and Decision Science\, School of Public Health\, Univ
 ersity of the Witwatersrand
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:In response to an increasingly severe obesity and diet-related
  disease burden\, on April 1 2018 South Africa implemented a tax on sugar-
 sweetened beverages titled the Health Promotion Levy (HPL). Like the UK’
 s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL)\, this tax is levied according to the s
 ugar content of beverages. Unlike the UK’s SDIL\, the HPL does not use d
 iscrete rate tiers and is rather levied at a constant rate per gram of sug
 ar (over an initial threshold). This presentation will highlight findings 
 from an ongoing evaluation of the HPL emphasizing heterogeneity in effects
  by products’ sugar content and heterogeneity in household responses by 
 socio-economic status.
LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1&amp\;2\, MRC Epidemiology Unit\, Level 3\, Instit
 ute of Metabolic Science\, Cambridge Biomedical Campus\, Cambridge CB2 0QQ
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