On World Aids Day the SNP has demanded that the Tory government reverse its cuts to overseas funding.
Ministers are under pressure from the opposition benches to reinstate the 83 per cent cut to UNAids funding — a consequence of its decision to break its manifesto commitment and cut aid budgets from the UN target of 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent.
In September, a parliamentary report laid bare the devastating impact the cuts were having on the global fight against HIV — saying they would “reverse decades of hard-won progress” in cutting transmission and death rates across the world.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
The US blockade of Cuba raises risks of a new global pandemic, experts warn at Unison conference
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW


