Lending Services

	The World Bank’s lending to tackle HIV/AIDS and TB in ECA includes:
	Central Asia AIDS Control Project:  (a $25 million equivalent IDA grant and a $1.9 million grant from the UK’s DfID). Approved in March 2005, this $27million project will cover Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Read the project factsheet.
	Moldova AIDS Control Project:  (a $5.5 million grant from the International Development Association), approved in June 2003. Total financing for National TB/AIDS/STI program, of which the AIDS Control project is a part: $14.7 million, of which $5.2 million is from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Remaining financial support is coming from USAID and the government itself.
	Russian Federation Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Project:  (a $150 million loan), approved in April 2003. Total cost: $286 million. Click Here for an Update on the Project.
	Ukraine Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Project:  (a US$60 million loan), approved in December 2002, but suspended in April 2006 due to slowness in disbursement as well as problems with procurement. Total cost: $77 million.

Of the four operations listed above, the Moldova project has progressed the furthest, with treatment and prevention measures now benefiting prison populations and other at-risk groups. The Ukraine and Russia projects are under way and project implementation units are now in place. In Uzbekistan , the Bank has been helping the government with a Health II project, which includes an HIV/AIDS component. In the Kyrgyz Republic , the World Bank is helping to implement a Health II Project and recently completed a nationwide attitudinal survey of adults to test attitudes and awareness about HIV/AIDS. In Turkey, the World Bank is helping the government assess the national surveillance system for HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS control is included in the Poverty Reduction Support Credit in Albania, where a nationwide opinion poll on attitudes about HIV/AIDS was also conducted.