Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of their programmes to prevent malaria in pregnancy, following the publication of the International Development Strategy.

As set out in the International Development Strategy and our global health position papers, global health is a priority for UK development policy and programming. Within this we will particularly focus on strengthening health systems and ending the preventable deaths of mothers, newborns, and children. Our bilateral health programmes will take consideration of malaria's disproportionate impact on pregnant women and children under five as a key driver of preventable deaths, and will strengthen health systems to deliver quality malaria prevention and treatment. Our investment in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria also delivers large scale malaria interventions for pregnant women and children.

We also fund research on combatting malaria, including for mothers, babies and children. For instance, our funding to the Medicines for Malaria Venture supports their Malaria in Mothers and Babies strategy, which aims to scale up the availability of preventive malaria treatment in pregnancy and generate evidence on the use of existing antimalarials throughout pregnancy.