EAA: Sign Letter to G8 leaders to Support Universal Access
In July 2005, G8 leaders made a commitment to “develop and implement a package for a comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care, with the aim of as close as possible to universal access to treatment for all people who need it by 2010.” This promise was made global at the UN World Summit in September 2005, and in June 2006 all UN member states endorsed a commitment to “universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010”.
This promise is not being kept, neither in terms of sufficient and sustainable funding nor in terms of concrete action.
Religious leaders made a powerful statement to G8 leaders in advance of the July 2006 summit on the need to keep the promise of Universal Access. This call must be strengthened before the G8 Summit, to be held in Germany, 6-8 June.