Health activists at the G8 meeting in Evian said it was outrageous that US President George Bush had attempted to block bipartisan efforts to increase American contributions to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria and described as “shocking” revelations that the European Development Fund was sitting on 10 billion unspent euros. “The heads of state created this fund and pumped it for positive publicity two years ago. Now they have decided to orphan it after deliberately manipulating the hopes and expectations of millions of people with HIV in developing countries,” said Sharonann Lynch of Health GAP.