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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 ...

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 the Bank in 2003, has advised governments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Topic: The World Bank Group

Cash payments reduce HIV risk: World Bank studies

World Bank names Zimbabwean to head AIDS program

AIDS funding squeeze puts lives at risk: report

AIDS rise may force India to spend more: World Bank

AIDS conference urges West to keep funding pledges

Major AIDS conference considers impact of financial crisis

World Bank sees challenges ahead for AIDS funding

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