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date	08/04/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	HIV infection: Ethnic Groups and Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing a public health campaign to reduce late diagnosis among (a) BME and (b) female people living with HIV.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	241993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>Reducing late diagnoses of HIV amongst black and minority ethnic (BAME) people and women living with HIV is already an aim of Public Health England’s (PHE) HIV prevention programmes.</p><p> </p><p>HIV Prevention England, the national HIV prevention campaign funded by PHE and delivered by Terrence Higgins Trust, aims to promote HIV testing to reduce undiagnosed and late HIV diagnoses in Black African communities (men and women), men who have sex with men, and other groups in which there is a higher or emerging burden of infection. Further information is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hivpreventionengland.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.hivpreventionengland.org.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>PHE also runs the HIV Innovation Fund which supports volunteer organisations leading new approaches to HIV prevention and focuses on engaging at-risk or under-served communities. Since 2015, the HIV Innovation Fund has supported 16 projects specifically targeted at Black African/other BAME people, and three targeted at women. Projects funded in 2018 are available to view the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-reached-170000-people-in-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovative-hiv-prevention-projects-reached-170000-people-in-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/04/2019 14:13:12 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1109768

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Rakhine State Advisory Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the progress on implementing the Rakhine Advisory Commission's recommendations; and what steps he is taking to support those recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	240939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The British Government welcomed the report of the Rakhine Advisory Commission and its recommendations. We note that the civilian government in Myanmar has accepted the recommendations contained within the report and we continue to push for full implementation. We recognise that the government has started work on responding to some of the recommendations, but there is still significant progress that needs to be made. We continue to offer assistance to the Myanmar Government to address the long term issues in Rakhine and deliver for all communities.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 12/04/2019 13:38:05 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg