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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.
Resource Gallery
AIDS Day speech
Nov. 15, 1999
President Wolfensohn stresses the Bank's commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS on multiple levels (duration 3:09; 812I).
Press release -- World Bank Group strengthens commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa
July 8, 2000
The press release announces a US $500 million comprehensive AIDS program for Africa eligible to any African country that sets up a national AIDS program (1756539).
President Wolfensohn's brown bag lunch with AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTAfrica)
May 15, 2000
The briefing book provides the background, work program and achievements of the Africa Region's strategy to combat HIV/AIDS and lists the major challenges (30036307).
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 Group HIV/AIDS pamphlet
October 1999
The pamphlet describes the activities that the World Bank Group has taken to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic (1736675).
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.
Briefing materials for President Wolfensohn
Nov. 11, 1999
President Wolfensohn's briefing materials for his speech at the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS given on World AIDS Day (1736675).
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.
