Global G8 Campaigning Issues
G8 Campaigning - from the Universal Access Road Map
Read the excerpt from "The Road Ahead: Campaigning on Universal Access until 2010", a discussion document to help create a shared understanding of the campaigning challenges and opportunities ahead.
Delivery and Accountability at the 2008 G8 Summit
The following paper calls on 2008 G8 leaders to deliver on the existing promises they have made in order to achieve universal access by 2010. With only two years until 2010, barely one in four people people have access to the HIV medicines they need to stay alive, and just one in five have access to basic prevention services. These statistics represent failures by G8 governments individually and collectively to not only hold themselves to their commitments, but to agree on mechanisms for monitoring and delivery on what has already been promised. Now is the time for G8 leaders to make good on the commitments they have already made.
These are:
- Ensure achieving universal access to AIDS services is on the G8 agenda
- Agree and publish firm plans and timetables to deliver existing commitments
- Establish a process to track and monitor delivery of these commitments
Unions Target Japanese Embassies: “Keep G8 Promises for AIDS & Health"
The Global Unions will be carrying their campaign for a new G8 AIDS mechanism to Japanese embassies world-wide from April 28th, through to the Global AIDS Week of Action and onto the G8 summit. Encouraged by the progress made towards establishing a mechanism at the last G8 the Global Unions are appealing to the World AIDS Campaign constituencies and others in civil society to join the 2008 effort.