G-8 agrees on action for food security and public health. (General).EVIAN, FRANCE France (frăns, Fr. fräNs), officially French Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe. -- The Group of Eight industrialized in·dus·tri·al·ize v. in·dus·tri·al·ized, in·dus·tri·al·iz·ing, in·dus·tri·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To develop industry in (a country or society, for example). 2. nations agreed to develop and implement new measures to address a number of humanitarian concerns, including food security, public health and environmental issues. The G-8--Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States--agreed: * to do more to meet immediate food assistance needs in famine-stricken countries by improving the efficiency and speed of delivery of contributions of both food and nonfood non·food adj. Of, relating to, or being something that is not food but is sold in a supermarket, as housewares or stationery. aid. * to improve warning systems and prevention mechanisms to help stop food shortages before they occur and to increase aid effectiveness; and * to initiate new long-term measures to address food insecurity. The G-8 also released an action plan to support efforts to combat disease epidemics, as well as new measures to improve public health systems. Group members supported a French proposal to host, along with the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , Tuberculosis and Malaria, an internal conference of donors and supporters in Paris in July. The G-8 also called for new measures to address global public health concerns, including: * strengthening health systems, providing better access to medicines and more research into diseases that primarily affect developing nations. * to eradicate polio and to stop the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. (SARS). * to improve access to safe drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. and basic sanitation. |
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