The report outlines "indirect consumer taxes" as well as "greater donations by wealthy governments as a percentage of gross domestic product, voluntary individual payments tied to such things as individual mobile phone use, health care lotteries, new commitments from charitable and philanthropic organizations, and the possible diversion of current philanthropic giving from developed-world causes into developing world health care," FOXNews writes. "The report lays out, and generally endorses, a number of public-private partnerships in the developing world with some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical firms. But it also raises the idea of a tax on pharma-profits from low-income countries that could raise as much as $160 million a year," according to the FOXNews

The article includes estimates of the money raised by such taxes, how the money would be channeled and a link to the full report (Russell, 1/22).

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