Sign the Global Petition to G8 Leaders
Tell G8 leaders to keep their promises on health and education. Add your voice to Archbishop Desmond Tutu's and help keep the promise. AIDS organisations will hand over the petition on June 5th, the eve of the summit.
We, the undersigned, believe that the commitments made by the G8 leaders in 2005 on poverty, aid to poor countries, HIV/AIDS, health systems, and education, are solemn promises, made to impoverished people, including millions or orphaned children. Breaking these promises is morally unacceptable.
Yet, the G8 is not on track to keep these promises, and aid levels have actually declined. Less than half of all people in urgent need of AIDS treatment by 2010 will be receiving it, 77 million children have no access to school, and Africa alone faces a shortage of nearly 1.5 million health workers.
Mere rhetoric from the G8 will not save lives and restore hope. We call on you, the leaders of the G8 nations, to agree on a financing plan to reach the promise of universal access to all AIDS services by 2010. We call on you to fully support a coordinated plan to strengthen health systems. And, we call on you to provide full funding for education, to give every child the chance to go to school.
Click here to sign the petition
To sign the joint civil society letter to G8 leaders Click here