IAS demands Canadian Prime Minister Harper and other G8 leaders meet their commitments on AIDS funding

published on November 23, 2009 in International AIDS Society

As its 6th Annual Governing Council Retreat drew to a close today in Vancouver, British Columbia, the International AIDS Society (IAS) called on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and leaders of the other Group of Eight (G8) nations to fulfill their 2005 commitment to fully fund efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.

Leadership from Prime Minister Harper is particularly important as Canada will convene and help set the agenda for the June 2010 G8 Summit in Muskoka, Ontario, which will also bring together the G20. While significant progress has been made in recent years towards scaling up HIV prevention and treatment efforts internationally, Canada and most of the other G8 nations have fallen notably short on the commitment they made at the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, to make these services universally available by 2010. The year 2010 will be critical to financing the scale-up required to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of funding targets related to improving human health and development by 2015, agreed by all UN Member States. More >>

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Julio Montaner

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

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