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Article: The World Bank and sub-Saharan Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- June 5, 2007
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Global health
Between the early 19808 and 2000 the prevalence rate of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa increased from less than i% to 12%1 as illustrated in the prevalence maps in Fig. i. This represents an increase in the number of people living with HIV infection from less than é million to 22 million.1 During this period, neither African governments nor the international donor community sufficiently prioritized HIV/AIDS or allocated adequate resources to help prevent and control its spread. In sub-Saharan Africa, the total amount of official development assistance actually declined in the 19905, to about $3 per HIV-infected person by 1999.' By this time, the international donor ...