The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape: Selected Papers for the World Bank's Agenda for Action in Africa, 2007-2011

Elizabeth L. Lule, Richard M. Seifman and Antonio David

No 2648 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a long-term development challenge for the region. Nearly 12 million African children have been orphaned as a result of the disease, and 22.5 million people in Africa 61 percent of them women live with HIV. The hyperepidemics in Southern Africa have diluted poverty reduction efforts and in several countries substantially reduced life expectancy. The critical need to address this development problem is reflected in the sixth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which seeks to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 and to make access to treatment for HIV/AIDS universal for all those who need it by 2010. With Sub-Saharan Africa representing nearly two-thirds of those living with HIV globally, and the fact that human development indicators of several countries in the region lag far behind the rest of the world, prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa reaching any of the MDG goals will require a sustained response to HIV/AIDS. Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS is closely linked to combating other major diseases referenced in sixth MDG, promoting gender equality (MDG 3), reducing child mortality (MDG 4) and improving maternal health (MDG 5).

Keywords: Health; Nutrition and Population-HIV AIDS Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Health; Nutrition and Population-Disease Control & Prevention Health; Nutrition and Population-Health Monitoring and Evaluation Gender-Gender and Health Health; Nutrition and Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7651-5
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