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Millennium Foundation
The Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health is an independent, non-profit Swiss organization, established in November 2008 in order to create new ways to finance health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Millennium Foundation aims to ensure that international commitments on improving health care are met through the development of innovative financing projects. Its first such project – called MassiveGood – was launched on 4 March, and will give travelers the possibility to add a $2, £2 or €2 micro-contribution to the purchase of a travel reservation, with all proceeds going to the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
==Mission and Activities==
In 2000 the United Nations agreed to achieve eight international development goals by the year 2015, called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Three of these goals are health related – to treat and fight life-threatening diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; to reduce childhood mortality; and to improve maternal health. Despite repeated commitments to the three health-related MDGs and increased funding available for development, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis still have appalling human and economic consequences in developing countries. Official Development Assistance has been increasing in the past few years but cannot keep up with the damage done by the economic crisis on low- and middle-income countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Development aid at its highest level ever in 2008 )〕 In order to bridge this financing gap, the international community has looked into new funding mechanisms. The Taskforce on Innovative International Funding for Health Systems issued in June 2009 a report〔()〕 acknowledging the potential of innovative sources of funding: Innovative Financing projects that have sprouted up in the past decade include Product Red,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tweet @ Whitehouse )〕 the International Finance Facility for Immunization,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Finance Facility for Immunisation )〕 the Global Fund, the GAVI〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GAVI Alliance )〕 and UNITAID.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unitaid )〕〔()〕 UNITAID is funded by a small tax on airlines tickets levied in 12 countries and budgetary contributions from 17 countries. Since 2006, UNITAID has committed over US$730 million to support 16 projects in 93 countries.〔()〕
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