Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Department for International Development has spent on bilateral funding for HIV and AIDS programmes in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

The table below shows DFID Bilateral ODA expenditure on HIV/AIDS for the last five years for which figures are available.

The majority of our investments to the HIV response are now directed through multilateral partners such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNITAID and UNAIDS. This enables us to have greater impact on HIV than we could achieve through bilateral programmes alone.They can deliver the large-scale, low-cost programmes needed in the most effective way and at the best value to the taxpayer. For example, our £1.1billion investment in the Global Fund (2017-19), up from our £1bn pledge in 2014-2016, makes us the second largest donor. This support will help provide lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy for 1.3 million people living with HIV.