On 8th November 2000 the UK's Prime Minister launched a project examining how to achieve better availability of drugs to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries and help achieve the targets for these diseases agreed at the G8 Okinawa summit.

This report to the UK Government sets out the analysis, findings and recommendations of this project. The project team worked closely with the UK’s Department for International Development and HM Treasury, the UK finance ministry, in developing its proposals; as well as consulting a wide range of parties world-wide.

The project recognises that a huge amount of existing effort is already underway world-wide and that a wide range of discussions on new policy measures is required to tackle the health crisis. This report is intended to inform these policy discussions and to allow a wide range of individuals and organisations to respond to its proposals.

The report examines the need to build on existing initiatives to strengthen preventative and treatment action and health care systems. But it has a particular focus on identifying policy measures required to address the issues of affordability and incentives, and the need for partnership to deliver solutions in these areas.