Oral Question·Church Commissioners
“To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church of England has made of the potential effect on public health of reopening churches.”
Tabled: 12 May 2020Answered: 19 May 2020
Answering Minister
the right hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Development (Anneliese Dodds)
Investments in the Global Fund, Unitaid, UNAIDS—the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS—the World Health Organisation and others have helped to cut new HIV infections by 60% since 1995 and AIDS-related deaths by 69% since 2004. I was pleased to meet HIV-positive activists in Parliament recently and to be videoed while undertaking a quick and easy HIV test. Together, we can eradicate HIV/AIDS.