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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from : <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" size="3" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Buzz about the Upcoming G8 Summit and Global Health <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jennifer Zelmer Editor-in-chief Healthcare Policy, <span><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.longwoods.com/publications/healthcare-policy/21736" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> 5(4) 2010: 10-14</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </span></font></a></span></b><br>
</span>Website: <a href="http://bit.ly/bWSOTi" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://bit.ly/bWSOTi</span></font></a> <br><br></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">G8 summit on June 25-26 in Canada’s Muskoka region</span></font></b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">: <a href="http://g8.gc.ca/g8-summit/" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://g8.gc.ca/g8-summit/</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“………G8 watchers have been speculating for months, but it is mosquitoes that will feature in formal discussions at the upcoming Summit. As host of the G8, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that he will ask his colleagues to focus on the extent to which countries have met previous G8 commitments (Office of the Prime Minister 2010). Among them was a pledge in 1998 to support the global "Roll Back Malaria" initiative, with the goal of significantly reducing the death rate from the disease by 2010.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Canada</span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> will also be championing a global agenda for improving maternal and child health at the Summit. With only five years left until the 2015 deadline, much progress still needs to be made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (Secretary General to the United Nations 2010). One of those goals is to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The United Nations reports that child mortality in developing countries fell from 99 deaths per 1,000 live births at the beginning of this period to 72 in 2008. With a goal of 33 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2015, there is still much to do.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Can it be done? Historical analysis by Hans Rosling (2009) from Sweden's Karolinska Institute demonstrates that significant progress is possible…..<br>
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<h2 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Rosling, H. 2009. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Yes They Can.</span></i> Stockholm: Gapminder Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2010. <<a href="http://www.gapminder.org/videos/yes-they-can/" target="_blank">http://www.gapminder.org/videos/yes-they-can/</a></span></font></h2>
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