UK

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.

Read below the letter addressed to Archbishop Desmond Tutu in response to the joint action by religious leaders to call G8 Heads of State to keep their promises made towards universal access by 2010, which was coordinated by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA).

April 25, 2007 - In a sign that the UK is backtracking on its commitments to the world’s poorest people, the UK is posed to limit the growth of the fund that it helped establish to fight the world’s three biggest killer diseases.

The Stop AIDS Campaign has created a policy paper about the commitments that the G8 has made in regards to Universal Access targets. This paper highlights four critical areas: financing universal access, strengthening health systems,ensuring affordable medicines and supporting women and children, which Stop AIDS Campaign believes the G8 must deliver on in to turn Universal Access into a reality.

Please see below letter to the UK G8 Development Minister regarding taking the actions needed to keep the promise of universal access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care by 2010 in the run up to the G8 Summit June 2007.

Please see below to read the letter sent to the UK's Finance Minister regarding his role in fulfilling G7 commitments on expanding HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.