AIDS: New financing?

The National AIDS Council (NAC) met on the eve of the G20. A tax on financial transactions was raised.

Thirty-three million people worldwide are living with the AIDS virus. And only six million have access to treatment, according to latest figures from UNAIDS, which date from 2009. The NSC, an independent body, meeting on the eve of the G20, wants a new tax to make up for lack of funds. Innovative financing, based on a tax on financial transactions. And thus control the dynamics of the epidemic through increased access to screening and treatment. Otherwise, "the fight against HIV / AIDS will be permanently compromised," says there at CNS.

Willy Rosenbaum, president of CNS, said that the UN had promised in 2005, universal access to antiretroviral treatment for late 2010. However, it failed to do so. Therefore, it undertook in 2011 that 15 million people are on treatment by 2015. Because "the setting for the treatment of infected people can reduce very significantly the risk of HIV transmission," involving "a substantial drop in the number of new infections in a relatively short time," recalls the CNS.

New investments in the study
According to the Council, the investments made has decreased since 2009. $ 15.9 billion in 2009, they would have up to 28 to 50 billion dollars a year to achieve the 2015 targets. However, there was an increase "unprecedented" in disposable income between 2000 and 2008. The CNS also suggests the need to mobilize the ODA, in France in the lower ratio of 0.7% of GNI (Gross National Income) in 2015, to which it had undertaken. He also advocated innovative financing diversified, such as taxes and public / private partnerships.