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Act Up-Paris Press Release: July 1 2008: According to the Financial Times the G8 is priming itself to go back on the commitments it pledged at the Glenneagles summit in 2005. Universal access to aids treatments will not longer be guaranteed by 2010, and the increase of 25 billion euros of aid for African development is no longer certain for 2015.
In response to the Financial Times article on 29th June reporting that the G8 are set to abandon the 2010 commitment and may schedule the $60 billion over 8 years rather than 3, the Stop AIDS Campaign sent a letter to Gordon Brown and the DFID Ministers. They also prepared an important press release. Download the letter and press release, please see below.
Thank you to the over 200 organisations from more than 60 countries have signed on their to support in persuading G8 countries to keep their promises. The following letter will be sent to G8 leaders. Please continue to check back for updates.
Welcome to G8 AIDS Campaigning
Here G8 AIDS campaigners are encouraged to collect and share information during the run-up to the 2008 G8 summit in Hokkaido-Toyako, Japan. If you do not already know about the G8 and why the G8 countries are important for AIDS campaigners, this is a good place to begin learning why. If you already know, we encourage you to learn about what others are doing and to share your plans with us.
2008 G8 News
According to a draft of the 2008 G8 communiqué, leaked to the Financial Times on 29 June, G8 leaders are planning to abandon the universal access target of 2010. The solemn pledge of the 2005 Gleneagles summit that has been reiterated in each of the successive G8 summits, inspired the 2005 World summit 2005 and served to set the benchmarks for the High Level AIDS meetings of 2006 and 2008. To abandon this promise now calls into question the credibility of all G8 commitments including the Millennium Development Goals.
The Civil G8 group prepared a statement, signed on by over 200 organisations and unions, that calls on 2008 G8 leaders to deliver on the existing promises they have made in order to achieve universal access by 2010. Click here to download it.
Civil society organisations in the UK and France have also issued statements regarding this leaked communiqué. Please visit Country G8 Campaigns to read more.
About the G8
Twenty years ago at the 1987 Venice summit, AIDS was first placed on the G8 agenda. Nearly every summit since then has addressed some AIDS related issue, but usually only after AIDS campaigners insisted on its inclusion on agenda. Read more...
As civil society gears up for the 2008 G8 summit, we will continue to update the sections below with your plans and activities. If you would like to send us information about your campaigning activities, please contact us.
The World AIDS Campaign facilitated a consultation of Civil G8 organisations 20-21 November, 2007, to discuss preparations for the Hokkaido-Toyako G8 Summit. To read the report click below (in English)
2007 Heiligendamm Summit
| The German government, under the auspices of the G8 Presidency, issued the first-ever review of progress in attaining G8 commitments on AIDS, TB and Malaria. Read the report… "Civil G8 Process: 2007 Lessons Learnt and Future." Click below to read the report… |
