Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of her Department's country offices have direct bilateral expenditure that is coded under HIV prevention, treatment and care; and what the value of that expenditure is.

DFID’s expenditure on HIV and AIDS is now overwhelmingly directed through our multilateral support: our £1.1billion investment in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the period 2017-19 and our work with UNITAID and UNAIDS.

Strategic investments in DFID country programmes support this. Direct bilateral budget expenditure specifically coded under HIV prevention, treatment and care amounts to £18.3million for 2016/17 according to the UK AID Development Tracker; which can be found on our website at https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/sector/2/categories/130/projects/13040.

This supports regional programmes and projects in 8 DFID countries. This coding itself captures only part of our bilateral work: a range of investments not coded under HIV will also support the AIDS response, especially in the highest prevalence countries.