AIDS , Malaria and Tuberculosis . As a follow-up to the G8 announcements on its pledge to fight infectious diseases, the City of Winterthur is honoured to host this initial forum, being held in the City of Winterthur, Switzerland from 3 to 6 October, 2000. The City of Winterthur enthusiastically embraced the challenge by arranging to host this initial forum. Health is clearly a development issue and an element of global financial planning.
Health is everybody's challenge.
For this initial Forum, being held in the English language only, more than 150 participants from around the world have been invited to attend ranging from prominent advocates for the target diseases, communication experts, marketing professionals, funding partners, CEO's and board members. In order to strengthen existing advocacy networks for this exciting initiative, an additional one hundred potential new partners from foundations, multinational corporations and non-health NGOs are also being invited to attend. We firmly believe that all sectors, including the business community and wider civil society, have the know-how, expertise, presence and tools to ensure the innovative action needed for 'Massive Effort' to be a success.