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Because Nothing Says R-E-S-P-E-C-T Like Using Poor People for Social Experimentation

2010-11-02T12:18:27Z

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Cash payments reduce HIV risk: World Bank studies

2010-07-18T13:15:34Z

The World Bank released two studies Sunday linking cash payments to Malawian and Tanzanian youths with "significantly lower" rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

In the first study, a two-year program rewarded young girls in Malawi, rife with poverty and high HIV infection rates, with cash payments for...

World Bank names Zimbabwean to head AIDS program

2010-07-08T14:30:32Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday named David Wilson, a Zimbabwean national who has written extensively about AIDS in the developing world, to head the poverty-fighting institution's global HIV/AIDS program.

Wilson, who joined t...

AIDS funding squeeze puts lives at risk: report

2010-05-27T02:15:10Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Backtracking by international donors in funding for HIV/AIDS may undermine years of progress and is already putting lives at risk, the health aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.

In a report on AIDS in eight sub-Saharan African countries, it said major donors have decide...

AIDS rise may force India to spend more: World Bank

2010-03-06T22:15:52Z

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients, the World Bank and other agencies said Sunday.

New Delhi spends about 5 percent of its $5.4...

The World Bank Failing the MultiCountry AIDS Program Failing HIVAIDS

2010-10-22T12:12:22Z

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'If a soldier is shot in an ambush, what if he's trying to call for help and two truckers are discussing soccer?'

2010-10-21T10:14:06Z

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AIDS conference urges West to keep funding pledges

2010-06-11T21:09:03Z

AIDS activists urged Western donors Wednesday to keep their pledges to a fund to fight the disease amid fears that the global financial crisis could hurt the campaign.

"Already we are missing billions of euros in funding and the current financial crisis means that it could become more difficult to fill the gap," UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot warned at the opening of a major intern...

Major AIDS conference considers impact of financial crisis

2010-06-11T21:09:04Z

A major international conference on AIDS in Africa opens on Wednesday in Dakar amid fears that the global financial crisis could hit funding for the fight against the disease.

French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who won a share of the Nobel prize for medicine this year for her discovery of the HIV virus, told AF...

World Bank sees challenges ahead for AIDS funding

2010-04-16T14:00:47Z

Funding for the fight against HIV/AIDS may be hit by the current financial crisis, a World Bank economist told an international conference on the disease in Dakar Wednesday.

But there were other solutions for the challenges ahead, Rene Bonnel told the 15th Beijing, China on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. The World Bank raised its growth forecast for developing East Asia on Tuesday but said governments need to control rising risks from surging capital inflows and currency strains. (AP Photo/Ng IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, and World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick talk during the Development Committee meeting at the IMF World Bank 2010 Annual Meetings in World Bank President Robert Zoellick, right, and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, talk before signing a loan agreement between the French Development Agency and the Busan, South Korea Friday, June 4, 2010. The Group of 20 leading economies should look to supporting growth in the developing world to help ensure a sustainable long-term global recovery, ...

APTOPIX South Korea World Economy G20

2010-06-04T01:30:18Z

Managing Director of the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, listens to Il SaKong, chairman of the World Bank conference during an opening press conference at the G-20 Finance and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Busan,