TUBERCULOSIS EMERGENCY AND HIV/AIDS

Early day motion 1025, tabled 15 November 2005 by Lord Herbert of South Downs (Conservative). Signed by 88 members.

That this House acknowledges the continent-wide tuberculosis (TB) emergency recently declared by African Ministers of Health; notes with concern that TB kills two million people worldwide each year, that an estimated one third of the 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS are co-infected with TB and that TB is the leading killer of people living with HIV/AIDS; further notes with concern that the World Health Organisation's `3 by 5' initiative to provide three million people living with HIV/AIDS with life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs by 2005 is unlikely to be met; recognises that TB treatment is one of the most effective ways of extending the life of a dually infected person until antiretroviral drugs become universally available; believes that global efforts to tackle TB and HIV should be fully co-ordinated in order to control the rise of TB among HIV-infected people and to identify more patients in need of antiretroviral treatment; recognises that the theme of this year's World AIDS Day is `keep the promise'; and urges the Government to pledge its share for collaborative TB/HIV programmes as recommended in the Commission for Africa Report.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 38, Labour 30, Conservative 15, Scottish National Party 2, DUP 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.