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Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (1 May 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...and pro-poor agricultural research that can have a positive effect on the lives of the poor. Irish Aid supports a range of operational research to evaluate the impact of global and country HIV initiatives it funds. An example is the Joint Learning Initiative on Children affected by HIV and AIDS (JLICA). This research partnership was established to identify and address the needs of children...

Written Answers — AIDS Prevention: AIDS Prevention (1 May 2008)

Michael Kitt: Recent data released by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) demonstrate that the global HIV prevalence — the number of people living with HIV — has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen. This is primarily due to much improved surveillance methodologies, along with some positive impacts of HIV programmes. However, in 2007 over 33 million people were...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (29 Apr 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...and Timor Leste. This funding will assist those countries in delivering basic services, promoting economic growth and in building good governance. We will spend over €130 million on combating HIV/AIDS and other very serious communicable diseases that kill so many. We will provide funding of over €140 million to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), missionaries and other civil society...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2008)

Michael Kitt: .... Ireland continues to focus its development assistance on the least developed countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, and we have also given a special priority to the fight against HIV-AIDS. Ireland must continue to work with other EU member states to ensure that all efforts are made to achieve the millennium development goals. I am convinced that the ratification of the...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...Government, civil society partners and other donors. The current framework strategy covers the period 2007 to 2010. It focuses principally on the education sector, but also on water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, social protection and on building good governance. The programme has a strong presence in Zambia's Northern Province, the poorest of its geographical regions. In common with all funds...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...working in agriculture and for pastoralist groups; on governance and accountability where support is provided to civil society organisations, to media and state watchdog bodies; on health and HIV/AIDS where assistance is provided for poor, vulnerable and marginalised communities. In common with all funds available to Irish Aid, those allocated for the development programme in Tanzania are...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...Strategy Paper which is drawn up in consultation with Government, civil society partners and other donors. The current strategy covers the period 2007 to 2009. Support is provided for education, HIV/AIDS, and governance; as well as through a Poverty Action Fund (PAF) which channels funds to support key sectors such as water, sanitation and agriculture. Ireland has contributed to the...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: Recent data released by the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) show that the global HIV prevalence — the number of people living with HIV — has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen. This is primarily due to much improved surveillance methodologies along with some positive impacts of HIV programmes. However, in 2007 over 33 million people were living...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (11 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: Africa and sub-Saharan Africa in particular, bears a disproportionate burden of the world's death and disease. Much of this is related to HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other communicable diseases and also to conditions of persistent poverty. Whilst there has been encouraging progress in many countries in the treatment of HIV and control of TB and malaria with resultant reduction of death...

World Trade Organisation: Statements (6 Mar 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...the trade related intellectual property agreement and public health in developing countries. Acknowledging the serious public health crisis afflicting many developing countries, in particular, HIV-AIDS, Ministers agreed that public health concerns should override the issue of patent laws. They also agreed that the rules governing the import by developing countries of patented drugs...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...and Irish Aid will continue to expand its assistance to the region as our aid programme grows. Much of this funding is devoted to areas which are key to achieving the MDGs. These include combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other communicable diseases, assisting countries in emergency situations and in reconstruction following conflict, and continuing our programme of support to education,...

Seanad: Millennium Development Goal: Motion (13 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: .... Safer childbirth for the mother is also safer for the child, reducing the number of children dying shortly after birth. A link has been also identified between maternal mortality and malaria, HIV and AIDS and a number of other medical conditions. Issues as basic as human resources for health, access to functioning medical equipment, adequate supplies and medical hygiene are all key...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...would be an indictment of the developed world. It is in the interests of each and every country to ensure that the Millennium Goals are reached as the instability caused by global poverty and HIV/AIDS is a threat to all humankind and not just to the countries affected. In reaction to the geographical disparities highlighted in the latest review, the UN Secretary General convened an MDG...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...of Uganda's national poverty reduction plan. It focuses on those areas which will have the greatest impact on the poorest and most vulnerable members of the community, such as education, health, HIV/AIDs and good governance. Irish Aid assistance has contributed to the considerable progress that has been made in these areas. For instance, in education, by 2006 the net enrolment rate at...

Written Answers — Health Issues: Health Issues (6 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: As outlined in the White Paper on Irish Aid, the Government's commitment to tackling HIV and AIDS and other diseases of poverty will remain a top priority for our aid programme. We are committed to developing programmes that address the key causes of illness and ill health among the poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthening health systems in the poorest countries. Following the...

Overseas Development Aid. (6 Feb 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...countries will increase from eight to ten. Malawi has been selected as our ninth partner country and a programme of development co-operation will begin there this year. The struggle against HIV-AIDS is particularly important and we allocate over €100 million in respect of it and other communicable diseases every year. We also need to maintain our ability to respond quickly and...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (30 Jan 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...learning for the increasing numbers of children attending schools. The main focus is on primary education, including support for girl's education and strengthening the education sector response to HIV and AIDS. Support is also provided, where appropriate, to second and third level institutions. Approximately two thirds of expenditure is allocated to partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa,...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (30 Jan 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...funding of €5 million to support the Trust in the provision of housing. He also announced the official launch of Chello, a charity working on educational scholarships for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The Taoiseach visited the offices of Eurocape, where the Mandela Rhodes Place development is viewed as a flagship inner city rejuvenation project. The Taoiseach also visited Leratong...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (30 Jan 2008)

Michael Kitt: ...shortly. Zambia is one of Ireland's priority countries for development assistance. The budget allocation for 2008 is €27 million. These funds are delivered across a range of sectors including, HIV/Aids, education, governance and civil society. Our Embassy in Lusaka is monitoring the situation on the ground carefully and we remain prepared to continue to respond as the situation unfolds.

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (19 Dec 2007)

Michael Kitt: ...the World Bank is also directed to a number of large global funds managed by the Bank, notably the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria. This is one of the principal mechanisms for addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a systematic and effective way. Smaller amounts are given in support of the International Finance Corporation, the branch of the World Bank Group devoted to strengthening the...