Developing Countries: Tuberculosis
(asked on 7th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided for research and development for new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines for tuberculosis in the financial years (a) 2014-2015, (b) 2015-2016 and (c) 2016-2017.
This question was answered on 14th December 2017
The UK Aid Strategy highlights the importance of combatting the world’s most serious diseases, including tuberculosis (TB). DFID provided (a) £10.6m in 2014/15 (b) £9.3m in 2015/16 and (c) £7m in 2016/17 for the development of drugs, diagnostics and vaccines to combat TB.