Written Question
Monday 4th April 2016
Asked by:
Baroness Barker (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was their bilateral spending on technical assistance to programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the financial years from 2010–11 to 2014–15 in addition to their commitment of up to £1 billion for the Global Fund.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a critically important part of the international architecture for fighting the three diseases. The UK provides technical assistance to programmes funded by the Global Fund through the following organisations: the Stop-TB Partnership, Roll Back Malaria, UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation’s Global Malaria Programme. The table (below) shows DFID’s spend to these organisations over the last five financial years.
(£ Millions)
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
WHOs Global Malaria Programme | - | 1.50 | 3.50 | 1.50 | 3.50 |
Roll Back Malaria | 0.52 | 1.00 | 1.63 | 0.63 | 1.23 |
Stop TB Partnership | 1.00 | 1.90 | 1.50 | 0.50 | 1.00 |
UNAIDS | 10.00 | 10.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 |
| | | | | |
Total (£ Millions) | 11.52 | 14.40 | 21.63 | 17.63 | 20.73 |
The UK is committed to remaining a world leader in tackling global diseases and ending the epidemics of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 2030. Our future contributions to the Global Fund will be determined following the completion of the Bilateral and Multilateral Aid Reviews.
Written Question
Thursday 31st March 2016
Asked by:
Baroness Barker (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the mandate of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines and its potential to improve access to affordable and quality medicines across the world.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The UK is committed to ensuring access to low cost, effective medicines in the developing world, providing a range of other significant inputs to increasing access to essential medicines.
A new £1 billion fund – the Ross Fund - was recently announced with the aim of developing, testing and delivering a range of new products to help combat the world’s most serious diseases, such as malaria, Ebola and TB in developing countries.
We support the provision of essential medicines and other health products through innovative global partnerships such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNITAID, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). We work to strengthen systems weaknesses, such as weak supply chains or poor procurement, which deter private investment, keep medicines prices high or lead to misuse or waste of medicines. We also place a great emphasis on research and development of new vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for conditions that affect millions of poor people. For example, the UK is a leading investor in public-private Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), designed to stimulate research and development (R&D) where market incentives are insufficient.
We support the aims of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines. For it to fulfil its potential to improve access to affordable and quality medicines it will need to take a balanced approach, building and urge them to build on the WHO Global Strategy and Plan of Action (including underlying in-depth reports and discussions), and engaging withe existing global partnerships, and use its influence to galvanise Member States, public and private sectors around a common approach to this important issue.
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