This month we will be visiting our newly-elected MPs to help them to understand how they can become strong champions for international development. We will be looking in detail at the upcoming G8 summit in Canada in June, at which there are plans to announce a major initiative designed to tackle the millions of mothers and children dying from preventable causes every year. UK support, including financial support, is crucial to this initiative.

We will ask our MPs to call on the new Prime Minister to support UK financial support for a package of proven interventions in health and sanitation, along with further UK financial support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria which is facing a major funding shortfall.