Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if the forthcoming UK Government hosted Cepi replenishment conference will highlight the contributions that The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria makes to global health security and pandemic preparedness and response.

The Foreign Secretary will host the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit on 8 March 2022 to raise funds for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI)'s 5-year strategy for preventing future pandemics. This will support CEPI's work to improve pandemic preparedness, including through investing in vaccines research and development to enable the world to have vaccines within 100 days of a future pandemic threat being identified.

In addition, the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit will recognise the importance of Global Health Institutions, like the Global Fund, in enabling coherent global pandemic preparedness and response. The Global Fund and CEPI have worked closely together since the pandemic's onset through mechanisms such as the ACT-Accelerator (which both organisations co-launched) and the Global Fund's C19 Response mechanisms to address inequity in access to health services, strengthen health systems in lower- and middle-income countries, and build resilience.

Separately, the Global Fund will have its own replenishment later in 2022, hosted by the United States Government.