Group of Eight nations place health on the agenda
When the leaders of the G8, a group of 8 industrailzed nations (the G8 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States) meet July 7-9 in Hokkaido for their annual summit global health will be on the agenda! Leaders discuss setting targets to tackle the world’s growing shortage of health workers.
Japan, as host of the July 7-9 summit, is particularly pushing for G-8 cooperation to promote universal access to reproductive health services and increased birth attendance by skilled attendants in Africa to 75 percent in five years to drive forward the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, the sources said. - Associated Press
Leaders of the G8 said that they will discuss ways to increase global cooperation to achieve the MDGs and to discuss ways to increase effectiveness of aid delivery.
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