Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on the health of women and girls in high-burden countries.

The Global Fund's new strategy places a high priority on women and girls; 60 percent of the Global Fund's spending is specifically targeted on programmes for women and girls and about one-third of Global Fund investments directly benefits Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Our investments in the Global Fund have been critical for delivering our manifesto commitment to end the preventable deaths of mothers, babies and children by 2030, with malaria predominantly killing pregnant women and children under five and women with HIV having some of the highest maternal death rates.