The Department for International Development (DFID) provides support to the following countries in sub-Saharan Africa on developing and implementing policies to tackle AIDS: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
DFID officials, based in the UK and oversees, are in regular contact with representatives of governments in these countries regarding HIV/AIDS policy.
There have not been recent discussions between DFID Ministers and representatives of governments of sub-Saharan African countries specifically regarding policies to tackle AIDS. However, DFID Ministers have had frequent discussions with such government representatives on policies which have an impact on AIDS.
Globally, the UK provides the second largest bilateral contribution to tackle AIDS. In our AIDS Strategy, launched in 2008, we committed to spending £6 billion on health systems and services up to 2015. We also pledged £1 billion to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria by 2015 and over £200 million to support social protection programmes.