Speakers from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, together with the largest international financiers of global health, will urge the G8 to provide new funds for healthcare systems strained by AIDS and preventable childhood diseases, and will release new data on the impact of effective disease-fighting strategies that can be scaled up to prevent millions of deaths every year. The June 9 press briefing in Oslo will set the stage for a series of activities, whose main focus is to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases, many of which can be prevented with vaccines. These activities will also raise funds for the Nelson Mandela Foundation to dramatically reduce the deadly burden of preventable disease on the world's most vulnerable populations.

Led by the Nelson Mandela Foundation's Chief Executive, John Samuel, international leaders in global health will define progress in the fight against HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, and in immunizing the world's poorest children against preventable but deadly infectious diseases. With one voice, they will call on the G8 Leaders to commit to specific actions of support for Africa at their meeting in the UK in July. The events planned for 9-12 June include the 46664 Arctic-an AIDS awareness concert and part of the HIV/AIDS global awareness campaign named for Nelson Mandela's prison number; an international political rally; and a high-level panel featuring global health experts, two former presidents and a prime minister.

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