Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Northover on 21 October (HL2052), what proportion of spending on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria can be qualified as supporting research and development for new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines.
Answered by Baroness Northover
The estimated proportion of spend in the 2012/13 financial year, which is the most recent year for which we have figures, is:
| Research as a % of bilateral plus Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria spend | |
| Malaria | 8% |
| TB | 4% |
| HIV | 3% |
Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom non-governmental organisations the Department for International Development has supported in response to the ebola epidemic; and how much money has been given to each of those organisations.
Answered by Baroness Northover
The UK is leading the international response to Ebola in Sierra Leone, and we are working closely with a wide range of UK and International NGOs to contain and combat the outbreak. Given the shifting nature of the epidemic and the evolving international response, payments to NGOs are under constant review.
To date, our support to UK NGOs includes disbursement of £13.5million to the British Red Cross; £5million to Save the Children; £3.6 million to World Vision; £2.1million to UK Med, £50,000 to Riders for Health and £52,000 to Map Action.
We will make further disbursements to UK NGOs as needed throughout the Ebola crisis.
Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they are doing to support the development of a new tuberculosis treatment regimen.
Answered by Baroness Northover
The UK Government is a strong supporter of research to develop new tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens and has funded the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) since 2005. The TB Alliance has three TB treatment regimens in late stage clinical development and will soon launch one of those into a registration study. In addition the TB Alliance is adapting existing regimens so that they can be used for children with TB.
Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom-based development and non-governmental organisations have received more than £1 million from the Department for International Development per year for each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Northover
Details of disbursements to UK based Civil Society Organisations (including Non-Governmental Organisations) made by the Department for International Development are available in tables that are too large in size to print in the Official Report. Details are made available online and will be placed in the Library of the House and provided to the Noble Baroness.
Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Department for International Development spent on the relief of (1) HIV, (2) tuberculosis, and (3) malaria, in 2013, including commitments to the Global Fund.
Answered by Baroness Northover
Details of the total expenditure on health are published online in Statistics on International Development (SID) at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2013.
The Department for International Development’s (DFID) support to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control is provided through: disease-specific bilateral projects and programmes; bilateral support to health systems and service delivery; UK Government contributions to multilateral and global initiatives that work on disease prevention and treatment; and by supporting research.
In 2012/13 the UK contributed £127.9 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Figures for direct bilateral spend in 2012/13 on HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis are reproduced below:
2012/13 £m | |
HIV | 90.4 |
Malaria | 111.5 |
TB | 12.7 |
Asked by: Baroness Suttie (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the World Health Organization Recommended Activities for tuberculosis and HIV integration are currently employed within (1) bilateral tuberculosis programmes, and (2) bilateral HIV programmes.
Answered by Baroness Northover
DFID actively seeks to incorporate World Health Organisation guidance into its programmes but activities that fit with the WHO recommended activities are not specifically identified in our financial and other management information systems, and therefore we are unable to report on the information requested without incurring disproportionate cost.
Promoting integrated responses to tackling TB-HIV co-infection has been highlighted in the review of the UK’s 2011 HIV position paper, “Towards Zero Infections-Two Years On”, as a key area of current and on-going effort. This will contribute to the global results to help halve TB-related deaths among people living with HIV by 2015.