Here is the statement written by civil society and presnsted to G8 officials at the civil society meeting April15-16th.... 

Civil G8 - Health Group [Final Statement] 4-16-10 

Preamble: 

• 2010 is a landmark year for efforts to achieve the health MDGs. We welcome the proposed G8 initiative on maternal, newborn, and child health, and call for urgently needed additional political and financial commitments, a new roadmap toward success in 2015, and an integrated and complementary approach on health and development. 
• We recognize encouraging progress and stress that reduction in Maternal and Child mortality is a key indicator to measure functionality of health systems. Inequities in marginalized populations in all countries cannot be ignored. 
• We know what to do to achieve the health MDGs and G8 governments are critical to make it happen. Significant additional money is needed, from both donor governments and domestic sources, such as working in partnership with high-burden countries to fulfill the Abuja commitments to commit 15% of national budgets to health. 
• Success requires that life-saving health information, commodities, and evidence-based interventions be delivered through effective health systems, with the full support and engagement of communities and in the context of nationally-led health plans. 
• We welcome G8 investment in water and sanitation, programs to combat maternal and child under-nutrition and ensure food security, education of women and girls, and other such mutually reinforcing steps that address the indirect or underlying causes of mortality. 
• At this critical point in the countdown to 2015, we affirm the need for bilateral and multilateral support and multilateral financial mechanisms to disburse funds to promote the health MDGs. We affirm the need for an agreed set of indicators to track progress related to the health MDGs and demonstrate the successes of G8 investments. This should include improved country-level data. 

Recognizing the importance of an integrated approach to achieve the health MDGs, we urge the G8 governments to: 

1. Double resources to $4 billion annually to accelerate progress on MDGs 4 and 5, investing in effective health systems that deliver quality interventions along the continuum of care, as outlined in the Consensus for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. We ask for each G8 government to make bold, detailed, and coordinated country contributions in order to leverage the $30 billion needed globally by 2015. This would support the joint plan of action on MDGs 4 and 5, which the UN Secretary General called for this week in New York. 
2. Urgently scale up and leverage resources to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support; and to realize the Global Stop TB Strategy and the Global Malaria Action Plan. G8 countries must take leadership to fully replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria with at least $20billion from 2011-2013 and maintain the demand driven model. 

This is the year to catalyze progress on the health-related MDGs and address preventable causes of mortality and morbidity. A strong, unequivocal statement by the G8 will reinvigorate the global agenda for the MDGs, and help to establish a roadmap to success by 2015. We expect accountability on commitments. Civil society is prepared to continue playing its part.