To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps her Department has taken to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in (a) Uganda and (b) Africa in the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Between 2006 and 2010 DFID provided £7.2 million through its HIV/AIDS programme in Uganda with a focus on behavioural change efforts to reduce HIV transmission and to support the development of a National HIV Prevention Strategy. DFID is currently providing £16.3 million over four years (2011-14) to improve the effectiveness of Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevention response. Because of the importance of continued research in the fight against HIV/AIDS, DFID is supporting collaborations between UK and Ugandan scientists to test new interventions aimed at reducing new infections, including through the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative which has set up laboratories in Uganda.

In Southern Africa, DFID spent £28 million between 2008 and 2011 on a regional programme for HIV prevention through social and behaviour change. In 2012-13 DFID developed four new HIV prevention programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and southern Africa Regional). These new programmes will contribute to reducing by at least 500,000 new HIV infections among women in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015. A new regional programme (launched by the PUSS on 8 July) will generate better evidence on successful HIV interventions, focusing on two vulnerable populations, including adolescents.

The UK continues to be a major donor to the Global Fund for Tuberculosis, HIV and Malaria which provides major funding for HIV prevention, treatment and care across Africa, including approximately 40% of the funding for Uganda's HIV response.