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Written Question
Developing Countries: HIV Infection
Thursday 24th March 2016

Asked by: Caroline Lucas (Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 27367, in which countries her Department has integrated HIV and sexual reproductive health and rights programmes.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The UK puts the empowerment of girls and women at the heart of everything we do. We are the second largest funder of HIV prevention, care and treatment, and have pledged up to £1 billion to the Global Fund. In 2013 an adolescent girl was infected with HIV every two minutes - this is not acceptable, so this is a priority for us with international partners.

Examples of our approach and countries which DFID has integrated HIV and sexual reproductive health and rights programmes can be found in “Towards Zero Infections-Two Years On” and on the department’s development tracker, both available on DFID’s website.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Mar 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Prime Minister likes to suggest that he is the champion of localism, but today his Government are seeking to gag local communities with a crass forced academies policy that will stamp out local consultation and dissent. Can he explain to the vast majority of parents and residents in Brighton …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the UNHCR and pathways for admission of Syrian refugees.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Crausby. I am pleased to have secured this debate ahead of the high-level meeting on 30 March in Geneva, which was called …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"I agree with the hon. Gentleman. It is shameful that a country with such a huge amount of resources locally is not taking its fair share of refugees. Elsewhere, in comparison, Jordan is hosting more than 600,000 Syrians, while Iraq and Egypt are supporting 245,000 and 118,000 refugees from the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"That sounds like an interesting model. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for interjecting that into the debate, and I would be interested to look at it in more detail.

The point is that, despite the continuing hospitality of those countries and the considerable financial support that has been …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The evidence he has cited underlines the real flaws and dangers to human life in that programme. That is what makes it morally right that the UK should take greater responsibility for those fleeing the Syrian conflict...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"Well, if anybody knew the answer to that question, they would be a very much wiser person than many of us here, and certainly very much wiser than I am. I would love to think that there is a solution in the shorter term. All countries need to redouble their …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"I agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s point, but the priority right now—the overwhelming priority for all of us—must be ensuring that those people are kept safe so that they can go back, and I think the vast majority will want to go back: it is their home, where they …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Mar 2016
UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"Let me make a little more progress, if I may.

I have paid tribute to the Government regarding the finance, as the right hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mark Field) acknowledged, but I do want to make some criticism, I am afraid, of the numbers that the …..."
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UNHCR: Admission Pathways for Syrian Refugees

"I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Gentleman. There is a discrepancy between the compassion being shown by the British public and the way in which the Government have responded so far—they are underestimating people’s willingness to make room for more refugees in their homes and communities. I salute what Sheffield …..."
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