European Development Fund and health policy

28.2.2001

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0744/01
by François Bayrou (PPE-DE)
to the Commission

 

Given the new ACP-EU agreements signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000, the funds available under the Ninth EDF (EUR 13 800 million) and, finally, the resolution adopted at the most recent meeting of the Development Council on 10 November 2000 on transmissible diseases and poverty, it appears incontrovertible that the Commission and Council constantly renew the support given by the European Union and its Member States to the ACP States, with particular regard to public health policy.

 

Accordingly, would the Commission please indicate the funds made available to certain organisations renowned for their campaigns against handicaps such as blindness (Institute for Tropical Ophthalmology in Africa  – IOTA – which has its headquarters in Bamako, Mali) following the dissolution in particular of the Cooperation and Coordination Organisation for the Control of the Major Endemic Diseases, in the knowledge that funds must be made available for campaigns to treat transmissible diseases such as AIDS but that such funds must not be provided at the expense of the campaigns against the major endemic diseases which are, unfortunately, still present in a large number of African countries?

OJ C 318 E, 13/11/2001