HC Deb 12 November 1990 vol 180 cc52-3W
Mr. Strang

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the 10 World Health Organisation co-ordinated national AIDS control programmes in Africa and the Caribbean to which the Overseas Development Administration has provided bilateral assistance.

Mrs. Chalker

The Overseas Development Administration has pledged support for 15 WHO co-ordinated AIDS control programmes in Africa and the Caribbean. The countries are(a) in Africa—Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe and (b) in the Caribbean—Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos islands. The ODA is also supporting the regional AIDS control programme of CAREC—the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. Total ODA spending to date amounts to £7.18 million.

Mr. Strang

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much money the Overseas Development Administration has contributed to(a) the World Health Organisation's global programme on AIDS and (b) the International Planned Parenthood Federation's AIDS work in each year since their inception.

Mrs. Chalker

The Overseas Development Administration has made the following contributions to the World Health Organisation's global programme on AIDS1986 £250,000; 1987 £3 million; 1988 £4.5 million; 1989 £4.53 million; 1990 £4.55 million—a total of £16.83 million.

Since its inception in 1987, grants of £1.985 million have been made to the AIDS unit of the International Planned Parenthood Federation as follows: 1987–88 £300,000; 1988–89 £685,000; 1989–90 £500,000 and 1990–91 £500,000.

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