Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that those at high risk of HIV in the global south can access PrEP.

The UK's investments help to ensure that people at high risk of HIV in the global south can access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and other HIV prevention services, to reduce their risk of infection. The UK has pledged £1 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria's seventh replenishment (2023-2025), which will help save over 1 million lives and avert over 28 million new infections across the three diseases.

Our funding to the World Health Organisation also helps to support access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. For example, WHO has published guidance on offering the long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for HIV prevention and will help partners and countries to include CAB-LA safely and effectively in HIV prevention programmes.