Former US president Bill Clinton threw his support Wednesday behind a scheme to allow US air passengers to contribute voluntarily to a global scheme to buy cheap medicine for the developing world.
The retired US leader was in Paris, where his former French counterpart Jacques Chirac founded the UNITAID agency to oversee a one-euro-per-flight scheme to fund a massive drugs distribution effort.
Many countries, however, decided not to sign up to the compulsory tax, and French donors now pay much of the cost of a scheme that helps the United Nations to fund treatment for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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