This page shows the Early Day Motions where the main subject matter was HIV/AIDS from the Parliamentary session which began in November 2004 and ended in April 2005. This session was cut short by the General Election.

EDM 936

TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV IN AFRICA     (16/03/05)

John Barrett

That this House welcomes the publication of the Commission for Africa's report and the Government's recognition of the need to address the growing tuberculosis epidemic in Africa; notes that over nine million people in Africa are co-infected with TB and HIV and therefore commends the Government's support for the World Health Organisation's Two Diseases, One Patient Strategy for integrated TB and HIV care; recognises that TB is both curable and cost-effective to treat at a cost of about ú5 for a six-month course of drugs, and that 17 million patients have been treated under the internationally-recommended TB control strategy DOTS since 1995; regrets that only 17 per cent. of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria funds goes to TB, even though TB caused about 32 per cent. of deaths from the three killer diseases in 2002; calls on the Government to ensure that the needs of all TB patients are met in Africa and other high burden countries by guaranteeing that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is fully funded; further calls on the Government to increase direct budget support to African countries with high death rates from TB and TB/HIV to hire and train more health staff, and to increase community access to TB drugs in order to cure more people; urges the Government to take a leadership role at both the G8 summit and during its presidency of the EU by putting TB and the TB/HIV co-epidemic high on the agenda and by ensuring that the 2015 Millennium Development Goal on TB is achieved; and further calls on the Government to use the opportunity given by World TB Day on 24th March to demonstrate its commitment to eradicating this deadly, but curable disease.

EDM 806

LINKING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS     (01/03/05)

Chris McCafferty

That this House welcomes the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health's Report: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS; notes that stronger linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS are needed in order to combat HIV/AIDS and to improve maternal and child health; and recognises that taking action on one will also help to tackle the other.

EDM 788

REPORT ON LINKING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS     (25/02/05)

Tony Colman

That this House welcomes the Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS; notes that stronger linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS are needed in order to combat HIV/AIDS and to improve maternal and child health; and recognises that taking action on one will also help to tackle the other.

EDM 469

REDUCTION OF VAT ON CONDOMS TO 5 PER CENT     (11/01/05)

Lynne Jones

That this House supports calls from the Terence Higgins Trust and the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV to reduce VAT charged on condoms; recognises that due to its position as an EU member state, the UK cannot entirely remove VAT on condoms but can reduce it to 5 per cent.; understands that sexually transmitted infections cost around ú1 billion to treat annually in the UK, while HIV care costs are ú350 million and rising; recognises that the high cost of contraceptives disproportionately disadvantages the young; and as a measure to reduce the consideration of cost as a factor in an individual's decision to practise safer sex, calls on the Government to reduce VAT charged on condoms to 5 per cent.

EDM 115

ACTION ON AIDS     (23/11/04)

Neil Gerrard

That this House welcomes the Stop AIDS Campaign's new policy report Access to Care and Treatment Now: Meeting the AIDS Challenge; notes with extreme concern that the HIV/AIDS epidemic to date has claimed the lives of 20 million people and orphaned 15 million children; finds it unacceptable that millions of people will die of AIDS without access to basic care and treatment and that less than eight per cent. of people who need anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in developing countries get them; recognises that in 2004 the Government has made two significant promises to take action for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, with ú1.5 billion allocated in the comprehensive spending review to HIV/AIDS and the subsequent launch of the Government strategy on HIV/AIDS; believes that 2005 and the presidencies of the G8 and the EU will give the Government major opportunities to encourage greater political leadership on HIV/AIDS; and therefore calls on the Government to respond to the Stop AIDS Campaign's report by acting to strengthen health systems, ensuring that the international community provides the necessary and appropriate funding, promoting the lowered price of ARV drugs and other essential medicines, including through the reform of trade rules, and ensuring that at a minimum the G8 in 2005 commits to a binding timetable for universal access to care and treatment.

EDM 54

CONTAMINATED BLOOD PRODUCTS PUBLIC INQUIRY     (23/11/04)

Patsy Calton

That this House notes the severe illness and deaths of haemophiliacs and some partners from HIV and hepatitis C, caused by the use of contaminated blood products and the potential for future deaths from vCJD; and supports the Haemophilia Society in its calls for an independent public inquiry into the contamination of haemophilia treatment since the 1970s, in particular the failure to make the UK self-sufficient in blood products, the failure in some parts of the UK to make a timely switch to virally inactivated treatment when this became available from 1985 and the failure to make timely provision of genetically-engineered recombinant Factor VIII and IX for all haemophiliacs.

EDM 38

HIV/AIDS     (23/11/04)

Alan Duncan

That this House recognises that HIV/AIDS is a huge obstacle to poverty eradication in the developing world; notes that 58 million people worldwide are currently living with AIDS; further notes that last year, nearly five million people became infected with HIV, 2.9 million died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa alone and around 12 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS; fully supports the millennium development goal to begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS; notes that that goal must be central to any poverty reduction strategy and must be made an integral priority during 2005, the UK's presidency of the EU and the G8; and further calls on the Government to act on the recommendations of the National Audit Office in its Report of Session 2003-04, Responding to HIV/AIDS, HC664, to improve its response to this crisis.

EDM 36

VULNERABLE CHILDREN AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS     (23/11/04)

Alan Duncan

That this House believes that specific attention needs to be given to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, and that commitment needs to be given to this marginalised group; and calls for efforts to be made to strengthen the capacity of extended families and communities to protect the rights of, and care for, the children, as well as to ensure the Government provide them with access to schooling and health services.

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