In other summit news, the Financial Times is reporting the Bush administration has successfully pressured G8 leaders to backtrack on a two-year-old pledge to fund universal access to medical care for sufferers of AIDS. World leaders agreed to reach 10 million AIDS patients at the Gleneagles summit in 2005. Internal documents now show the G8 will now propose to cut that number by half to around five million. The lowered goal was inserted at the apparent insistence of U.S. negotiators. The move would come just one week after President Bush cited AIDS funding as a major priority. A senior G8 official called the proposal “a huge backward step.”