Report evaluates the Department for International Development's HIV and AIDS Strategy
Summary
Progress has been made on providing HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries but the 2010 target of universal access to treatment will not be met. 'Progress on the Implementation of the DFID's HIV/AIDS Strategy’ (HC 49-1) reports that the disease remains a significant development and public health challenge in many developing countries.
Contents:
- Chapter 1 introduces the inquiry and lays out the structure of the report.
- Chapter 2 examines how the Department for International Development's (DFID) Strategy will be monitored and evaluated.
- Chapter 3 looks at DFID's funding for strengthening health systems and its likely impact on HIV/AIDS programmes.
- Chapter 4 analyses how effectively HIV/AIDS programmes are integrated with strategies for tackling other related diseases.
- Chapter 5 discusses the extent to which social protection programmes will help those made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, particularly children.
- Chapter 6 examines the Strategy's approach to marginalised groups.
- Chapter 7 looks at access to anti-retroviral treatment.
- Chapter 8 examines overall funding for HIV/AIDS programmes and DFID's co-operation with other multilateral and bilateral donors.
- Chapter 9 looks at the effectiveness of cross-Whitehall working and, in particular, the role of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in taking forward HIV/AIDS work in middle-income countries.
- Chapter 10 makes conclusions based on the report's findings.
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