The government backing The Independent’s call to protect HIV funding and help end the Aids pandemic by 2030 could be an important success story for the UK, chief international correspondent Bel Trew has told parliament’s International Development Select Committee (IDC).
The UK is slashing its foreign aid funding by 40 per cent across the next three years in order to spend more on defence, with an announcement expected imminently on where those cuts will fall. The UK decision comes after Donald Trump has already decimated US aid funding by essentially shuttering the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
