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

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p> Americans Identify Global Health as the Top Priority for International Aid: A 2004 national survey* commissioned on behalf of PBS’s Rx for Survival by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions found that Americans identified improving global health as the top priority for international aid (37%), more so than improving economic conditions (31%), helping developing countries become democracies (17%) or helping protect the environment (9%).

Nearly two-thirds (65%) said the world’s health problems were indeed solvable and more than half of Americans said supporting vaccination programs (57%), educating youth about AIDS (56%), and preventing disease by building water and sewage systems (53%) should be top priorities for American organizations that aim to improve global health. Yet Americans’ awareness of worldwide health problems varied significantly. While 78% correctly identified HIV/AIDS as a global health problem, only 16% identified children dying from diarrhea and nine percent from malaria when, in fact, according to the World Health Organization, diarrheal illnesses kill 1.3 million children yearly worldwide and malaria more than one million people – mostly children.

*Survey conducted for PBS by Belden, Russonello & Stewart of 2,001 adults in January, 2004.

TIME Summit Press Credentials: To request press credentials for the TIME Summit, please log-on to www.TIME.com/globalhealth, and click PRESS. You must submit the form IN ADVANCE to request credentials in order to attend the TIME Summit, Nov. 1-3, 2005, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City, (in the Time Warner Center).

Also online is TIME’s full archive of global health coverage at http://www.timearchive.com/ For more information, please contact:

TIME magazine: Diana Pearson, 212-522-0833, Diana_Pearson@timeinc.com, or Kimberly Noel, 212-522-3651, Kimberly_Noel@timeinc.com.

Global Health Strategies: Victor Zonana, 212-929-7888 x 22, vzonana@ghstrat.com, or Dan Lowenstein, 212-929-7888 x 27, dlowenstein@ghstrat.com

Rubenstein Associates: Meredith Huddleston, 212-843-9343, mhuddleston@rubenstein.com