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Written Question
HIV Infection
Tuesday 7th March 2017

Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) HIV bilateral programmes and (b) DFID country offices account for the decline in funding coded as HIV prevention treatment and care between 2014-15 and 2016-17.

Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm

The majority of our investments to the HIV response is now directed through multilateral organisations such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNITAID and UNAIDS, given their greater reach and scale. The timing of disbursements partly accounts for the difference in spend between years.

Estimated direct bilateral spend on HIV programmes is expected to fall between 2014-15 and 2016-17 in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda. The UK has made a £1.1billion pledge to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria for the 5th replenishment 2017-2019, increased from £800million for the 4th replenishment. This will boost funding for HIV through the Global Fund and will support the firm commitment to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.

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