Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Christine Jardine Portrait
Christine Jardine
(Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure the Global Fund’s allocation of resources in response to the covid-19 pandemic does not effect resources for (a) HIV, (b) TB and (c) malaria.

Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 1st September 2020

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has provided up to US $1 billion to help countries fight COVID-19, mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on HIV, TB and malaria programmes, and support and strengthen health systems. This funding comes from savings from the fifth replenishment of the Global Fund (2017-2019). All of the funding from the sixth replenishment (2020-2022) will be used to fund programmes to fight HIV, TB and malaria and support and strengthen health systems.

The UK is proud to be the second biggest donor to the fifth and sixth replenishments of the Global Fund.

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