Advocacy ad in official G8 Summit book:

Blinding trachoma is bringing extraordinary human suffering and economic devastation to tens of millions of people.

Our goal is to eliminate it by 2020. Less than nine years from now.

It's an achievable goal, thanks to the WHO-endorsed SAFE strategy. SAFE brings Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvement to the poorest communities, where trachoma is most likely to be found. And to apply this strategy, organizations around the world are uniting like never before.

We can stop trachoma, a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD). But it's crucial that the G8 nations fulfill their 2010 commitment to "support the control or elimination of high-burden NTDs."

Our plan is set. Our resolve is clear. Our promise must be kept.

> GET YOUR COPY of the International Coalition for Trachoma Control's "2020 INSight" plan to finish the job of eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020. Email us at insight@trachoma.org.

> GET THE FACTS on the collaborative effort to fight trachoma by visiting www.trachomacoalition.org.

Join the growing list of organizations united to defeat blinding trachoma by the year 2020:

CBM*

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

The Fred Hollows Foundation*

Helen Keller International

IMA World Health

International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

International Trachoma Initiative*

Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology

Kongwa Trachoma Project

Lions Clubs International Foundation*