Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion: summary

Overview

At its 146th session in February 2020, the Executive Board requested the Director-General to develop an action plan (2022–2030) that would effectively implement the Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol as a public health priority, in consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, for consideration by the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, through the Executive Board at its 150th session in 2022. Through the same decision, the Executive Board requested the Director-General to develop “a technical report on the harmful use of alcohol related to cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotional activities, including those targeting youth and adolescents, before the 150th session of the Executive Board, which could contribute to the development of the action plan”. 

This is a summary of the report

Related links: 

• Report: Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion: a technical report
• Towards an alcohol action plan
• Alcohol, drugs and addictive behaviours
• Documentation for the 150th session of the Executive Board