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Below you will find a letter to the Finance Ministers of the G7 who are meeting in Rome, Italy on 14 February 2009. The letter urges G7 nations to take a leading role by pledging new money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria which is facing a $5 billion dollar gap in funding for 2009 and 2010.
Please sign the below letter and urge G7 governments to keep their promises to a fully funded Global Fund that will continue to save millions of lives around the world. Please email Vanessa Wu at vwu@results.org with the name of your organization and country no later than Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 12 pm Eastern Standard Time. Thank you in advance for your support.
2008 G8
Welcome to G8 AIDS Campaigning
Here G8 AIDS campaigners are encouraged to collect and share information during the run-up to the 2009 G8 summit in La Maddalena, Italy. 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.
2009 G8
This year's G8 summit will be held in La Maddalena, Italy. Ministerial meetings kick off preparations towards the summit, the first being the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Rome on 13 - 14 February. To read how civil society is already getting involved, click here. To read a full list of the 2009 Ministerial meetings, click here.
To read more about the 2009 summit, please visit the official Italian G8 website here.
2008 G8
To read more about what happened around the 2008 G8 in Japan click here.
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...
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)