The World Bank approved a US$20 million grant to step up the fight against HIV/AIDS in the six countries of the Great Lakes region— Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.  The Great Lakes Initiative on HIV/AIDS (GLIA) Support Project will finance prevention, care, and treatment, programs for large numbers of refugees, migrant and transport workers, highly infected groups, and others which move  between the five Great Lakes countries, with a strong emphasis on coordinating a regional, cross-border response to combating the disease.  

   

New World Bank Grant To Fight HIV/AIDS In Africa’s Great Lakes Region