G8 MUST DELIVER ON AIDS PLEDGES - GEORGE

This week’s Global Fund Summit in London, focusing on funding for programmes to tackle AIDS, TB and malaria, which caused the deaths of more than six million people in 2004, is the first test of the UK's and G8’s willingness to fulfil promises made at Gleneagles.

Andrew George MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, currently visiting AIDS and TB projects in Kenya, said:

"The burden of AIDS, TB and malaria is thirty times greater in developing countries, than in countries such as ours.

"The Government must use all its influence to secure crucial extra resources. The livelihoods of millions in the developing world depend upon it.

"All those who supported Live8, and continue to back the Make Poverty History campaign, expect the Government and G8 to deliver on their pledges."