Publication: Averting AIDS Crises in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : A Regional Support Strategy
Date
2003
ISSN
Published
2003
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The Regional Support Strategy is in
recognition of the threats that unchecked epidemics of
HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis pose to many of the World
Bank's client countries. It is an instrument to guide
the World Bank's role in the global development agenda,
which includes the Declaration of Commitment at a Special
Session of the U.N. General Assembly in June 2001. That
declaration reaffirmed a pledge made by world leaders to
have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by
2015. The document provides a unifying framework for the
World Bank's work on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia. It identifies the potential costs of inaction,
the constraints on an effective response, priority actions
to resolve such constraints, and the Bank's plans for
helping countries do so as part of a multi-institutional
effort. HIV/AIDS is fast becoming a threat to health and
economic development in parts of Eastern Europe and Central
Asia. Despite the dangers, country responses to the epidemic
have been patchy and limited by widespread denial. Where
actions have been taken to contain the epidemic, they have
tended to be pilot efforts on a scale that is too small to
make a dent in the overall course of the epidemic.
Governments and civil society have started to address the
problem, but they need to do much more to avert HIV/AIDS
crises in the region.
Citation
“World Bank. 2003. Averting AIDS Crises in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : A Regional Support Strategy. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/ece2901a-00b4-5da0-aad0-aa9af6db47c4 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”