Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the publication of The UK government’s strategy for international development, what assessment they have made of the case for additional investment in surveillance for malaria and other diseases.

Surveillance is an important aspect of efforts to control malaria and other diseases. UK investments support low and middle-income countries to strengthen their routine disease surveillance systems.

Multilateral investments on routine disease surveillance include the work of the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria. On malaria specifically, we have supported the Global Fund's Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative in response to the emergence of drug-resistant malaria in the Greater Mekong region.

Bilateral programming on disease surveillance includes the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Programme, the International Health Strengthening Programme and the Fleming Fund.