Chirac Calls for Global Tax to Fight AIDS
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS  on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number  of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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The presidents of Brazil and France have called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects ...
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AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Aid workers from around the world on Wednesday urged the United Nations and womenâs and religious groups to help combat HIV/AIDS and ensure that people affected by the disease were deeply involved in the fight against the pandemic.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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MONTEGO BAY - Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur has called for the development of &quot;new modalities of cooperation&quot; in the fight against HIV/AIDS, as the region moved closer to the establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
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Rock star Bono on Tuesday urged wealthy nations to step up donations to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria &quot;aggressively&quot; at a major donor meeting in Berlin this week.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The Group of Eight industrialized nations have struck a deal to increase their global aid for the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis to $60 billion, a G8 diplomat said on Friday.
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Aids medicines must be free for everyone who needs them in the developing world, or there will be no hope of reaching the UN target of three million being treated by 2005, doctors, economists and institutions say today.
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The government said Tuesday it would donate one billion pounds (1.4 billion euros, two billion dollars) over eight years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Bill Gates, whose philanthropic foundation has donated nearly $2 billion to fight AIDS, on Sunday called for countries to "dig deep" to halt the deadly virus that causes the disease.
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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The Bush administration&#39;s global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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The head of the Bush administration's global AIDS plan said he is taking steps that would permit the United States to give more money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria this year than previously planned.
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PARIS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Not a bad idea when French President Jacques Chirac  proposed a global tax on weapons sales and corporate profits to  pay for development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac on Wednesday proposed the creation of an international  tax to help fight AIDS, saying such a measure could raise $10  billion each year.