Chirac Calls for Global Tax to Fight AIDS
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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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African leaders call for more funds to fight the world's deadliest diseases - Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
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French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday a portion of the wealth generated by globalization should be put to work for poverty eradication, sustainable development and shared prosperity.
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France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved.
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Comment is free: Elton John: Millions of people with HIV hope that the G8 will remember its pledge to them next week.
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Canada will provide about $105 million in new funding for HIV/AIDS programs directed at women around the world, International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll announced on Wednesday to coincide with World AIDS Day, the CP/Canada.
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The presidents of Brazil and France called Monday for new efforts to fight poverty in the developing world, including the creation of a controversial international tax, to combat the negative effects of ...
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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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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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French President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday proposed the creation of an international tax to help fight AIDS, saying such a measure could raise &#36;10 billion each year.
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World powers on Friday  pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging  Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of  Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
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Five countries announced a plan Tuesday to raise $300 million from airline ticket taxes to provide impoverished children worldwide with AIDS drugs.
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Women and girls should be the focal point of the global war against HIV/AIDS, foreign and local officials said here on Friday. &quot;One of the objects most affected by HIV/AIDS is
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The United Nations envoy on AIDS urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to persuade the world's richest countries to provide more funds to step up treatment of the disease in Africa.
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Michel Kazatchkine , France's AIDS ambassador and a Harvard-educated doctor specializing in infectious diseases, was selected yesterday as the new head of the $7 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.