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"Turn Healthy Profits into Healthy People" demand activists at Vienna AIDS Conference
Vienna, 19 July 2010 - On the first full day of the XVIIIth International AIDS Conference, activists called on Bill Gates to tell world leaders "fill the gap: back the bank tax!" [Read more...]
CTL for health/FTT with health: research paper
Recognising the growing global support for the implementation of different types of financial transaction taxes, Action for Global Health, and Netherlands-based NGO International Civil Society Support, commissioned a research paper 'CTL-for-Health/FTT-with-Health: Resource-needs Estimates and an Assesment of Funding Modalities' to clarify the scale of the financing gap that would need to be filled if the health-related MDGs are to be met and the different mechanisms that could potentially be used to channel new resources for health through to developing countries. [Read more...]
Health spending in Uganda: the impact of current aid structures and aid effectiveness
This country briefing draws together the main findings gathered during AfGH's visit to Uganda in February 2010 and provides recommendations to policy makers and civil society. The first AfGH/DSW policy briefing on Health Aid Effectiveness in Uganda is now available online. [Read more...]
International expert group confirms Currency Transaction Tax feasibility - AfGH calls upon heads of state to implement tax
16 July 2010 - a group of experts drawn from the financial sector and academia have confirmed the feasibility of taxing financial transactions for the benefit of development. A detailed feasibility study titled "Globalising Solidarity: The Case of Financial Levies" was handed to the governments of Germany, the UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Norway, Senegal, Brazil, Spain, Austria and Chile, who had commissioned the report in November 2009. [Read more...]
Debating the Future of the Global Health Aid Architecture
London, 12 July 2010 - Action for Global Health UK, in partnership with Save the Children UK, Results UK, and the UK's Stop AIDS Campaign hosted a civil society workshop to review the current global health financing mechanisms and debate what the future aid architecture for health might look like. [Read more...]