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World Bank Group launches new HIV/AIDS strategic plan
World Bank Group launches a strategy detailed in the publication, Intensifying Action Against HIV/AIDS in Africa: Responding to a Development Crisis. The strategy warns that the AIDS crisis may undo the development achievements of the previous 30 years in Africa. The Bank Group was an early participant in the international fight against HIV/AIDS, investing in health projects with HIV/AIDS components as early as 1987 and funding its first freestanding AIDS project in Zaire in 1989.
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Democratic Republic of Congo AIDS Control Project
P003116 Approved: Sept. 8, 1988
The project aims to prevent HIV transmission, reduce the impact of AIDS on individuals and communities, and improve the country's database on AIDS.
World Bank HIV/AIDS Interventions: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Evaluation
Document date: June 30, 1998
The report evaluates World Bank Group activities to prevent and mitigate the effects of AIDS in all regions of the developing world during fiscal years 1986 to 1996.
AIDS, Poverty Reduction and Debt Relief -- A Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS Programs into Development Instruments
Aug. 31, 2001
The report points to the need for greater political attention to, and increased domestic funding for, the national HIV/AIDS programs.