Averting AIDS Crises in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : A Regional Support Strategy

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: HIV INFECTIONS;    ECONOMIC GROWTH;    TUBERCULOSIS;    EPIDEMICS;    HUMAN DEVELOPMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/0-8213-5580-5
RP-ID  :  26888

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Regional Support Strategy is inrecognition of the threats that unchecked epidemics ofHIV/AIDS and tuberculosis pose to many of the WorldBank's client countries. It is an instrument to guidethe World Bank's role in the global development agenda,which includes the Declaration of Commitment at a SpecialSession of the U.N. General Assembly in June 2001. Thatdeclaration reaffirmed a pledge made by world leaders tohave halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by2015. The document provides a unifying framework for theWorld Bank's work on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe andCentral Asia. It identifies the potential costs of inaction,the constraints on an effective response, priority actionsto resolve such constraints, and the Bank's plans forhelping countries do so as part of a multi-institutionaleffort. HIV/AIDS is fast becoming a threat to health andeconomic development in parts of Eastern Europe and CentralAsia. Despite the dangers, country responses to the epidemichave been patchy and limited by widespread denial. Whereactions have been taken to contain the epidemic, they havetended to be pilot efforts on a scale that is too small tomake a dent in the overall course of the epidemic.Governments and civil society have started to address theproblem, but they need to do much more to avert HIV/AIDScrises in the region.