ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPIES FOR HIV POSITIVE CHILDREN

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That this House welcomes the £150 million funding provided by the Government for orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS; notes with concern the acute shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) combination therapies for HIV positive children and the lack of paediatric diagnostics; and calls on the Government to support the establishment of a £200 million international fund to develop new diagnostic methods and ARV therapies for children.