And this comes together with an existing high burden of endemic infection and chronic infectious diseases, but also this parallel rise in these noncommunicable diseases.
In other words, by increasing the tax on tobacco and alcohol, deaths from noncommunicable diseases and from injuries can be sharply reduced in low- and middle-income countries.
And we were launched into an international dialogue about whether that was possible for drug-resistant tuberculosis, for HIV. Indeed, for surgery, for cancer, for mental health, for noncommunicable diseases.