World Bank s work for three countries from three different regions Africa Sub Saharan Europe Central
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Africa Sub-Saharan- South Africa
A number of world leaders in 2000 pledged to increase aid to African countries and to offer loans for prevention and treatment programs. The World Bank, a United Nations agency that provides long-term loans to countries for development, pledged $500 million in loans to any sub-Saharan country that established a national AIDS program for preventing the spread of the disease. The U.S. government pledged to loan up to $1 billion annually to finance the purchase of medical services and drugs from pharmaceutical companies that agreed to lower the cost of AIDS medications for African nations. UNAIDS officials also called for debt relief programs that would cancel portions of national debt, allowing countries to re-channel debt payments into AIDS programs. These efforts would result in much greater resources for treatment and prevention, because African countries in 1999 paid out about four times more in debt repayment than on all national health and education programs combined.
Experts agreed that such measures were essential for altering the course of AIDS in Africa. They noted, however, that a true solution would require a well-coordinated effort among numerous international development organizations, national governments, nongovernmental organizations, religious organizations, health care systems, and community programs. In 1999, the UN set up the International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa (IPAA) to organize international, national, and local programs against HIV and AIDS...