Description | Contains background articles, news articles, correspondence, working papers relating to the establishment of a new financial fund against AIDS and other transferable diseases agreed by the delegates of the G8 Summit in Okinawa, 2001. The file documents the various meetings and initiatives that were launched to establish the fund and include the draft report of the Ottawa Meeting (15-16 February 2001); consultative paper created by the UK government on how to achieve the G8 commitments; UN Secretary-General meetings, correspondence and coverage of his address at Organization of African Unity Summit in Abuja; draft annotated presentation by Peter Piot on fund and a table of various initiatives for global fund outlined in international meetings; European Commission report on the fund; UK Department for International Development (DFID) report on the creation of the fund and a UNAIDS Summary report of Global AIDS and Health Fund consultation that outlined the progress made in the creation of the fund. |