Malaria and the G8: Leading or Lagging?
7 July 2009
The Group of Eight (G8) is an informal but exclusive body, created in 1975, for governments of eight leading industrialized nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition, the European Union is represented within the G8, but cannot host or chair. The annual G8 leaders’ summit is attended by the eight heads of government, and discusses a range of sometimes inter-related issues which include health, economic and social development, energy, environment and trade. The G8 summit sets the stage for what needs to be done in terms of policies and objectives and establishes an idea of how to do it, although compliance is voluntary.
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