UNITAID hedder et initiativ, som kaldes “verdens første laboratorium for nytænkende veje til at skaffe penge” til udvikling af de fattige nationer – Mozambique i Sydøstafrika er seneste eksempel efter at have indført nye slags skatter og afgifter.
MAPUTO, 19 March 2013 (IRIN): Mozambique has become the latest African country to implement a financial transaction tax (FTT) and airplane levy (afgift) to fund health services in developing countries, part of the UNITAID initiative.
Philippe Douste-Blazy, board chairman of the international financing mechanism, spoke to IRIN about the state of play in innovative health financing.
Question (Q): We have heard a lot about innovative financing since HIV funding began to flat-line in 2009. What has happened since?
Answer (A): We began with a levy on plane tickets in 2006 in France and 13 countries. In the last two months, we’ve added Morocco. This week, we have been told Mozambique will also join. We’ve also added Chad, and I hope that discussions with Japan are going to continue.
It is very important to understand why we do innovative financing… We are living through one of the biggest economic crises in history. You cannot ask members of parliament in Europe or the United States for money.
We should continue to try, but it is impossible. We have to ask Brazil, India, China, South Africa, Russia to give more – but they do not do that. So we have to create innovative financing mechanisms.
The idea is very simple: to take a micro (lille bitte), painless, solidarity contribution from activities that benefit from globalization – that is mobile, internet, and financial transactions, plane tickets, etc.
We proved that innovative financing can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2015 Målene).
In five years, we have raised two billion US dollar from the small levy or tax on plane tickets. We have treated eight out of 10 children with HIV, 322 million people with malaria and one million people with tuberculosis. UNITAID is the first laboratory of innovative financing in the world.
Q: Does innovative financing look different in developed countries such as France than it does in resource-poor countries like Mozambique?
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