The World Bank helps developing countries reach the Millennium Development Goals that call for the elimination of poverty and sustained development.
As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS and under the UNAIDS division of labour, World Bank is the lead agency for support to strategic, prioritized and costed national plans; financial management; human resources; capacity and infrastructure development; impact alleviation and sectoral work.
The World Bank:
- Supports more strategic, results-oriented national HIV/AIDS planning, and better integration of HIV in national development planning.
- Provides sustained, predictable funding for HIV programmes and strengthening health systems
- Supports faster, more efficient, effective and transparent HIV programme implementation
- Helps strengthen country Monitoring and Evaluation systems and capacity to collect, analyze and use data
- Supports evaluation and analysis to generate and share knowledge to improve programmes.
GAMET Monitoring & Evaluation
The World Bank hosts Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Team (GAMET)
ASAP: AIDS Strategy & Action Plan
The AIDS Strategy & Action Plan service helps clients to develop well-prioritized, evidence-based, results-focused and costed AIDS strategies and action plans. ASAP services are hosted by the World Bank on behalf of UNAIDS and undertaken in consultation with the UNAIDS Secretariat, governments, Technical Support Facilities and other partners. More
Key publications
- Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work: A Capacity Development Tool Kit (The World Bank, 2010)
- The World Bank's commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa (The World Bank, 2008)
- Planning for, Measuring and Achieving HIV Results (The World Bank, 2008)
- More World Bank publications
Economic crisis
- The Global Economic Crisis and HIV prevention and treatment programmes (World Bank/UNAIDS, 2009)
- Financial Crisis Impact Assessment Tool for HIV/AIDS (ASAP/UNAIDS, 2009)
- Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth (World Bank, 2009)
Private sector
Business Coalitions Tackling AIDS: A worldwide review (WEF/World Bank/UNAIDS/GTZ, 2008)
Public sector
Courage and Hope: Stories from teachers living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2009)
Contact
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Telephone: +1.202.473-2256
Email: healthpop@worldbank.org
Learn more
Visit The World Bank web site for more information on its response to HIV. More
UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
