TIME MAGAZINE TO CONVENE LEADERS TO DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGES

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Host: TIME, the flagship magazine of Time Inc., is the world's largest news magazine, with a worldwide circulation of 5.2 million and an audience of 27 million readers in 180+ countries. TIME pioneered the newsmagazine concept when it was founded in 1923. Today, TIME remains the world leader as the largest and most successful newsmagazine renowned for its journalistic excellence and innovation.

Major Supporter: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to promote greater equity in four areas: global health, education, public libraries, and support for at-risk families in Washington state and Oregon. The Seattle-based foundation joins local, national, and international partners to ensure that advances in these areas reach those who need them most. The foundation is led by Bill Gates's father, William H. Gates Sr., and Patty Stonesifer.

The TIME Summit is Held In Association with Rx for Survival - A Global Health Challenge™: Co-produced by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, the project brings together independent media coverage from PBS.org, TIME magazine, NPR and The Penguin Press. Additionally, the WGBH Educational Foundation and Vulcan Productions have created Rx for Child Survival, an outreach campaign to raise awareness about child survival issues. Major funding for Rx for Survival is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Merck Company Foundation. PBS is a private, nonprofit media enterprise serving 348 public television stations, reaching over 90 million people each week. Beginning with the premiere of Rx for Survival in Fall 2005 and extending over 18 months, PBS will launch a health initiative that presents global content and educational resources — including original specials, extensive Web and community outreach.

Media Partner: ABC News. More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source. With the most trusted names in news, the combined, resources of ABC News translate into more knowledge, more power and more viewers. With 230 affiliate stations nationwide & more than 4000 affiliate radio stations, ABC News provides insightful information through its award-winning programs, World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, Primetime and Good Morning America. ABC News Now, the 24-hour news service of ABC News, enables multiple platform distribution, including cable/VOD, broadband & wireless delivery, of ABC News programming.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORTERS:

The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company. Every day, more than 1 billion servings of the Company's wide range of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages refresh people in over 200 countries around the world. The Coca-Cola Company has long been committed to using our resources and capabilities to help improve the quality of life in the communities where we operate. Through strategic partnerships with public, private and governmental organizations we strive to create value in the marketplace, enrich the workplace, preserve and protect our environment and make a positive difference and effective contribution to our shared world. For more information about The Coca-Cola Company, please visit the Website http://www.cocacola.com/.

The United Nations Foundation was created in 1998 with businessman and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion gift to support United Nations' causes. The United Nations Foundation promotes a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through the support of the United Nations. Through new and innovative public-private partnerships, advocacy and grant-making, the United Nations Foundation acts to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Website, http://www.unfoundation.org/.

ExxonMobil operates in more than 200 countries and serves the energy needs of millions of people around the globe each and every day, and has a long tradition of making a positive contribution in the communities and economies in which it operates. ExxonMobil considers community relationships an essential element of our global business and makes a continuous effort to improve and enhance the quality of our community engagement through programs like the Africa Health Initiative and the Educating Women and Girls Initiative. For more information, please visit the Website www.exxonmobil.com.

Becton Dickinson/American Red Cross BD and the American Red Cross share a long relationship and vision of helping people live healthier lives. BD is a major supporter of the Measles Initiative, a commitment to reduce measles deaths to zero in Africa by vaccinating 200 million children, saving 1.2 million lives with partners the American Red Cross, UNFoundation, UNICEF, CDC and WHO. BD has a corporate commitment to safe immunization programs around the world and is a vital part of measles vaccination campaigns conducting workshops and producing materials to make sure those administering vaccines understand safe injection practices. In order to assure that no needles and syringes are reused (resulting in potential transmission in infectious diseases), BD developed a syringe which mechanically locks itself after a single use, thereby preventing reuse. More than 200 million "auto-disable” syringes have now been used by the Measles Initiative. For more information on our initiative, please visit www.measlesinitiative.org. For more information on our organizations, please visit www.redcross.org or www.bd.com.