Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Earl Howe Excerpts
Monday 3rd December 2018

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Howe Portrait The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Earl Howe) (Con)
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My Lords, I am sorry to prevent the noble Baroness asking a question, but I feel it is the turn of the Conservative Benches.

Viscount Ridley Portrait Viscount Ridley
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My Lords, further to the question from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, about malaria, my noble friend will be aware that malaria mortality has halved in this century, which is a remarkable achievement. Seventy per cent of that reduction was due to a surprisingly low-tech innovation—namely, the insecticide-treated bed net, although, as my noble friend said, resistance is becoming a problem. Is he aware of research that is going on to improve the efficacy of insecticide-treated bed nets, and is this something that the British Government support?