The overall goal of the Health and AIDS Program is to strengthen the capacity of client countries to combat HIV/AIDS and to achieve critical health, nutrition, and population outcomes thus contributing towards realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Program aims to complement Bank lending with an effective learning program for client countries, Bank staff, and staff from other development agencies in order to:
- Strengthen national institutional capacities to lead in designing, implementing and sustaining strong health components of national programs and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), with particular emphasis on combating HIV/AIDS and improving health, nutrition and population outcomes of the poor and socially vulnerable.
- Clarify the role of government in the health sector, including policy and stewardship functions as well as facilitation of the public/private collaboration in financing and provision of services.
- Assess national health systems performance in terms of providing efficient, equitable and sustainable services, and determine reforms needed to improve.
- Use tools to identify and implement gender-sensitive policies in order to reduce gender-based inequalities in health.
- Support capacity building of national training institutions to achieve a sustainable increase both in knowledge and know how in the critical areas needed for achieving the MDGs
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