§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) when he will report progress on the Millennium Development Goal for the reduction in the proportion of 15 to 24-year-old pregnant women with HIV; [171676]
(2) when data will be available for the measurement of his Department's targets on HIV/AIDS policy in Africa. [171683]
Mr. Gareth ThomasThe data for monitoring progress towards the target for a reduction in the proportion of 15 to 24-year-old pregnant women with HIV from a 16 per cent. prevalence rate is collected by the United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). UNAIDS will publish their Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic containing this data in Summer 2004.
The data will enable us to update progress towards DFID's Public Service Delivery target for HIV/AIDS (as stated above) in 16 key African countries. It will be published in the Department's Autumn Performance Report later in the year.