Fighting HIV/AIDS by travelling

The Millennium Foundation was created in late 2008 and has launched MASSIVEGOOD, a fundraising project aiming to provide more funding to the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. MASSIVEGOOD will allow travellers to give $2 whenever they book travel services (air tickets, hotel rooms...). The money collected will go through UNITAID to many organizations such as the Clinton Foundation, UNICEF, the Global Fund...

The Millennium Foundation gathered many artists (Spike Lee, Samuel Lee Jackson...) and political figures (Bill Clinton, Philippe Douste-Blazy...) to act as its Ambassadors but MASSIVEGOOD’s success will rely on the will of individuals to join the movement.

MASSIVEGOOD has been politically unveiled on September 23rd 2009 at the United Nations General Assembly and was made available to travellers at the beginning of March.

Download the brochure:

Brochure.pdf (310.05 kB)

About Millennium Foundation

The Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health ("Millennium Foundation") is a Swiss not-for-profit organization created in 2008 whose mission is to create a sustainable source of needed additional funding to achieve the three health-related Millennium Development Goals agreed to by the United Nations in 2000: to treat and fight life-threatening diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; to reduce childhood mortality; and to improve maternal health. To achieve its mission, the Millennium Foundation aims to inspire and empower citizens to join a global movement of solidarity dedicated to reducing the glaring inequalities in access to health care between the rich and poor. The initial focus is the creation of MASSIVE GOOD, an innovative fundraising solution that makes it easy for all those who travel to make micro-contributions aimed at saving lives by fighting life-threatening diseases among the world's most vulnerable populations. For additional information, visit: http://www.millennium-foundation.org.

About UNITAID

UNITAID was launched 3 years ago as an innovative mechanism for scaling up access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Founded by Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the UK, today UNITAID has the support of 29 countries as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UNITAID today supports partner programmes in 93 countries worldwide, addressing HIV/AIDS in 49 countries; malaria in 29; and tuberculosis in 72 countries. In less than three years UNITAID has committed more than 900 million dollars to the diagnosis and treatment of these three diseases, representing a total of over 11 million treatments provided to patients. UNITAID uses a market impact model that drives prices down, by guaranteeing a long-term market for large volumes of drugs and medical tools. Reduced prices, in turn, help funds go further and help more people. UNITAID's funding model is based on an air ticket solidarity levy. While some of our donors contribute through multi-year budgetary commitments, the air tax provides more than 70% of our funding. Visit www.unitaid.eu for more information.

More information about this initiative: http://news.massivegood.org/