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Annan pushes for more anti-AIDS funds

    JOHANNESBURG

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged the international community to join France's search for new sources of funds against HIV/AIDS in developing nations.

    Speaking at the opening of the Paris Conference on Innovative Development Financing, Annan praised the soon-to-be imposed French tax on airline tickets, to help countries hard-hit by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

    "... France and other nations already foresee using funds from new sources to contribute to an international facility for the purchase of medicines which would permit the production of antiretroviral drugs and to facilitate their availability to people living with HIV/AIDS," said Annan.

    Annan estimated that of the 6.5 million people currently needing anti-AIDS drugs globally, only 1 million could afford it.

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