Kate Osamor – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Osamor on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Global Fund’s decision to require integration of TB and HIV programmes.

Grant Shapps

As of December 2014, Global Fund programmes have supported 8.1 million people with HIV to access antiretroviral therapy and have detected and treated 13.2 million cases of tuberculosis (TB).

Given the links between TB and HIV, DFID supports the Global Fund’s requirement for countries heavily burdened by the two diseases of TB and HIV to put forward unified and integrated applications for joint programming.

Initial evidence from a recent independent review of the Global Fund’s strategy indicates that the Global Fund’s joint TB/HIV programming has enabled greater communication across disease-specific stakeholders. The Global Fund now needs to harness potential synergies and work towards greater joint service delivery to achieve maximum impact across these diseases.