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India Averting 3 Million HIV Infections

On World AIDS Day 2011, the World Bank is releasing groundbreaking new evidence from India that demonstrates major advances in the understanding and prevention of HIV/AIDS.

A recently published impact evaluation found a significant decline in HIV prevalence among female sex workers and young women (15-24 years) seeking antenatal care in the high-prevalence southern states. The study, “Impact of Targeted Interventions on Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in India,” which was published in the medical journal BMC Public Health, evaluated the impact of targeted interventions among female sex workers—a vulnerable group at high risk—in four high-prevalence southern states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. The drop in prevalence is associated with a significant increase in consistent condom use. Among the women seeking antenatal care in districts with high intensity of targeted interventions, HIV prevalence declined by more than 50 percent from 1.9 percent in 2001 to 0.8 percent in 2008, compared with low-intensity districts where the infection rate remained constant at 0.9 percent in both 2001 and 2008. More  

Blog: AIDS at 30: Continuing the Fight

Today is the most mixed World AIDS Day in our 30-year fight against this devastating disease.

AIDS continues to reverse decades of human progress, particularly in Africa. As of 2010, 30 million people have died of AIDS-related causes, and another 34 million are living with HIV. And with HIV/AIDS funding flat-lining, we’re all facing the challenge of doing more with less. More

Slideshow: AIDS at 30: The World Bank Fights an Epidemic 

Live Chat: AIDS at 30 - Continuing the Fight

Join David Wilson, the World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Director today, December 1, at 9:00 am EST (14:00 GMT or get your time) in a live chat to answer your questions on the current status of the global epidemic and the Bank's role in fighting it. Join the chat 

MORE NEWS



Education  

• Angola, Tajikistan Take Diverse Paths to Improve Student Learning 
• The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
• Blog: Renewing Urgency Around 'Education for All'?

Health, Nutrition, & Population  

• Four Decades of Health Economics through a Bibliometric Lens
• Tall Claims: Mortality Selection and the Height of Children
• What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? 
• Afghanistan's Health Sector Evolves: Expanding Access through PPP's
• Earthquake Spurs Primary Health Care Revitalization in Pakistan
• Blog: Harmonization and Alignment in Development Assistance for Health: Now What?
• Blog: What Does a “Developed” Health System Look Like?
• Blog: Reforming Health Systems: Leadership Matters
• Blog: An Imperative: Reforming Medical and Public Health Education
• Blog: At 7Bil, Realizing the Economic Benefits of Family Planning
• Blog: A New Approach to Measuring the Impact of Global Health Aid
• Blog: Making a Public Health Case for Safer Roads

Social Protection & Labor 

• Results-Based Lending Approaches in Social Protection and Labor
• Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective
• Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
• Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
• Evidence and Lessons Learned from Impact Evaluations on Social Safety Nets
• Blog: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
• Blog: More Than we Expected: What We Would Like to Know about Conditional Cash Transfers

REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS



Africa  

• Innovative Partnership Brings State-of-the-Art Health Care to Lesotho
• Q&A: How Communities in Sudan Are Driving Post-Conflict Recovery
• Blog: A Strong Leader and a Good Idea!
• Blog: A Small Country Bringing about Big Change

East Asia & Pacific

• Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia 
• China: Make Road Safety the New Traffic Mantra
• The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
• Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia
• Lao PDR Receives over $12Mil from the World Bank to Improve Health Services
• Reforms in Higher Education Can Boost the Philippines’ Growth and Global Competitiveness—World Bank Report
• Philippines: Massive Immunization Drive Helps Protect Children From Preventable Diseases
• Thailand: Improvements in Higher Education Needed to Sustain Growth in Low- and Middle-Income East Asia
• Q&A: Higher Education in East Asia 
• Ladies First? Firm-Level Evidence on the Labor Impacts of the East Asian Crisis

Europe & Central Asia  

• Skills, Not Just Diplomas: Managing Education for Results in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Blog: The Clock is Ticking: Attaining the HIV/TB MDG Targets in the Former Soviet Union Countries

Latin America & Caribbean  

• Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia 
• Latin America's Population Growth Slows But Region's Services Still Insufficient
• Blog: Putting a Human Face on Health Systems 

Middle East & North Africa

• Reforms Needed in Higher Education to Meet the Needs of Young People in Middle East and North Africa

South Asia 

• Can Social Safety Nets Alleviate Seasonal Deprivation? Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh
• Lessons Learned from the Opioid Substitution Therapy Workshop in the Maldives
• Do Conditional Cash Transfers Lead to Medium-Term Impacts? Evidence from a Female School Stipend Program in Pakistan

PROJECTS

• Azerbaijan: Internally Displaced Persons Living Standards and Livelihoods Project
• Bangladesh: Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative: Women’s Economic Empowerment Project 

NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS

• 'Global Partnership for Youth Employment' Launches Website 

EVENTS

• World Bank Core Course on Safety Nets (December 5-16, 2011, World Bank HQ, Washington, D.C)

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