Preventing HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa: A Window of Opportunity to ActThe HIV/AIDS epidemic has the potential to impede and even reverse development if not addressed early enough. Poverty and income inequality have been shown to facilitate the diffusion of HIV epidemics. While abject poverty in the Middle East and North Africa region remains low, a significant proportion of the population (23.2%) live under $2 per day and are extremely vulnerable in their ability to cope with shocks. In order to preserve the benefits of national and regional development investments put in place by governments, and donor agencies, greater investments to improve HIV/AIDS advocacy, information and prevention strategies are needed now to maintain the current low prevalence levels. This title outlines the role of the Bank in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region based on a review of needs and gaps at the regional and country level. |
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Page x - UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund...
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Page 35 - HIV/AIDS action framework that provides the basis for coordinating the work of all partners. • One national AIDS coordinating authority, with a broad-based multi-sectoral mandate.
Page 12 - The ranges around the estimates in this table define the boundaries within which the actual numbers lie, based on the best available information.
Page 19 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA...
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Page 56 - ... Although President George W. Bush promised in his 2003 State of the Union address to give $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, his 2004 funding request was for only $200 million.52 The Global HIV Prevention Group— 50 health experts from 15 countries brought together by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation — is also active in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. In 2004, the Gates Foundation launched a $200-million HIV...
Page 77 - PAF proposals in countries with national counterparts: the World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Population Fund, and the International Labour Organization.
Page 49 - A key factor explaining why some countries have been able to mount an effective response to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic early on is whether governments are accountable to the broad majority of the population.