A minister has refused to say whether UK funding for the global HIV response will be protected when the government announces significant cuts to international aid.
Jennifer Chapman, the minister of state for international development and Africa, was responding to a question from parliament's International Development Select Committee about the aid cuts, with an announcement due soon on where they will fall for the next three years. Conservative MP David Mundell asked whether funding for organisations like the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) will be maintained in order for the UK to maintain its global "leadership" in the push to end the AIDS pandemic by 2030.
