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Cooper to set out aid spending as Labour backbenchers call for rethink

The Foreign Secretary will outline how she intends to allocate a much reduced aid budget.

Evening Standard · Mar 19

Ending the AIDS crisis is within reach – but the UK has to lead the way by not cutting key funding

COMMENT: Aid cuts by the US, and planned cuts by the UK, risk undermining decades of progress and could put millions of lives in danger, writes Beccy Cooper

The Independent UK · Feb 7

For just £1.30 a person each year the UK could help end Aids by 2030, new analysis finds

Exclusive: Analysis by The Independent reveals the cost of protecting what remains of UK aid funding for the global HIV response – helping prevent millions of infections and deaths

The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2025