Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Lord Collins of Highbury Excerpts
Tuesday 3rd December 2013

(10 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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The noble Baroness is right in terms of the impact. Yesterday, President Obama pledged $5 billion to the global fund. The US has said that it does not wish to contribute more than one-third to the fund. In other words, it wants to bring in other partners. Other countries, including Canada and the Nordic countries, have put in money and are coming forward in an encouraging fashion.

Lord Collins of Highbury Portrait Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab)
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My Lords, having identified TB-HIV as a strategic priority and the global fund as the lead provider for dealing with the TB epidemic and TB-HIV co-infection, will the noble Baroness tell us whether the department will follow the global fund in mandating that all HIV programming in high-burden TB and HIV countries includes specific strategies to reduce TB and TB-HIV incidence?