Topic: The World Bank Group
The 18th International AIDS Conference opened yesterday in Vienna. For six days over 20,000 people (scientists, activists, educators, policy makers, and the rest of us struggling to manage our lives in the face of all this help) will meet, talk, present, and ...
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 ...
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 in ...
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 ...
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.India with 2.5 million patients ...
The article provides information concerning the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP), which is a World Bank commitment of $1 billion to fight human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in sub-Saharan Africa. states must adopt (1) a national strategic plan; (2) a national ...
I don't think we had any idea doctors were involved to this extent, and it will shock most physicians. George Annas, a professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University, comments on newly released CIA documents showing the intimate ...
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 medicine ...
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 International ...
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China Asia World Bank
Chinese men take photos on the streets of Beijing, China on Tuesday ...AP News - -
IMF World Bank Meetings
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, and World Bank Group President Robert ...AP News - -
Finance Meetings
World Bank President Robert Zoellick, right, and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde ...AP News -
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MaximsNewsNetwork: THE WORLD BANK GROUP & WORLD ...
MaximsNewsNetwork: 01 July 2010 - THE WORLD BANK GROUP: Washington DC ...2010-07-01 -
The World Bank Group's Contribution ...
Working Together to Re-shape the Global Commons. The World Bank ...2010-06-07 -
"Beyond Aid" - Speech by World Bank ...
September 14, 2011 - World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick ...2011-09-14
