Speeches

Lord Lexden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Lexden on 2014-06-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they spent in each of the last three years on the prevention and control of HIV infection in the developing world through (1) multilateral bodies, and (2) bilateral programmes.

Baroness Northover

Over the past three years the UK Government has spent nearly £1 billion on tackling HIV through multilateral organisations and bilateral programmes.

Details of DFID spending on HIV prevention, treatment and care are available at Section 4.1 of the 2013 evaluation of the HIV Position Paper “Towards Zero Infections” and can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/towards-zero-infections-two-years-on.