Trachoma control community to G8 leaders: Honor commitment to eliminate NTDs

The trachoma control community wants G8 leaders to keep promises they made last year to help control or eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases.

With an advocacy ad in the official publication, G8 Summit France- 2011, the International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC) is urging leaders of the G8 nations to fulfill their 2010 commitment to  “support the control or elimination of high-burden NTDs.”

The ad, available in English and French, also announces the coming availability of ICTC’s “2020 INSight” plan to finish the job of eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020.

The 2011 G8 summit will be held in Deauville, France, on May 26th and 27th.

The G8 is comprised of the eight main industrialized countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.