G8's promises to Africa.
When meeting 2 years ago in Gleneagles, Scotland, the G8 leaders predicted that if their plan for Africa were implemented it would make it possible to deliver free basic health care and primary education for all and to provide near-universal access to treatment to people with HIV/AIDS by 2010 and to double the size of Africa's economy and trade by 2015. An editorial in the Lancet this week [Volume 369, Issue 9576, 2 June 2007-8 June 2007, Page 1833] states that Oxfam has calculated that over the past 2 years, 21 million children have died as a result of poverty, the equivalent of every child under 5 years in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK combined.