§ Mr. Chris SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many district HIV-AIDS prevention co-ordinators have been appointed; and how their work will be monitored and evaluated.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyAs at November 1990, more than 150 district health authorities in England had in place officers with responsibility for the co-ordination of district HIV prevention work. The Department has asked all district health authorities to finalise arrangements by March 1991.
Monitoring and evaluation of co-ordinators' work will, primarily, be achieved through each regional health authority's annual AIDS (Control) Act report. The Department is currently considering HIV prevention co-ordinators' continuing support and training needs in the light of a national seminar held last month which I attended.