Five Countries To Tax Airline Tickets To Raise Money For HIV/AIDS

... Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the United Kingdom on Tuesday at the 61st session of the U.N. General Assembly are expected to announce a plan to impose an airline ticket tax to fund an international drug purchase facility and HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria treatment and prevention programs, a French official said Monday, the New York Times reports (Dugger, New York Times, 9/19). [click link for full article] ...