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Intensifying action against HIV/AIDS in Africa : responding to a development crisis/

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York WHO c2000Description: xi,89p.: ill.; 24cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA644.A25 .W67 2000
Contents:
pt. 1. Executive summary. pt. 2. The gathering storm. The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemic HIV/AIDS' devastating impact on development Impact of the epidemic on various sectors The imperative of urgent action pt. 3. Building an effective response. Intensify, expand, and improve the national response Address the root causes of vulnerability Assess the impact of development projects on HIV/AIDS Learn from experience pt. 4. Strategic plan for intensifying action against AIDS in Africa. Goal Approach Overcoming barriers Actions pt. 5. Planning for implementation at the country level. pt. 6. Staffing and support. pt. 7 Next steps
Summary: Two-thirds of the worldʹs HIV/AIDS epidemic is in Africa. Last year alone, the disease killed 1.5 million people. They were not statistics. They were fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, doctors and nurses, primary school teachers, electrical engineers, community leaders, finance managers, entrepreneurs, students, researchers, and farmers trying to lift their families out of poverty. Their spouses and children are now condemned to new hardship. These people died because of the unique concentration of HIV in Africa, but also because the continentʹs leaders -- and its international partners -- have been slow to respond to the epidemic. Not since the bubonic plague of the European Middle Ages has there been so large a threat to hundreds of millions of people -- and to the future of entire economies and societies. -- From executive summary (p.1)
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pt. 1. Executive summary. pt. 2. The gathering storm. The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemic
HIV/AIDS' devastating impact on development
Impact of the epidemic on various sectors
The imperative of urgent action
pt. 3. Building an effective response. Intensify, expand, and improve the national response
Address the root causes of vulnerability
Assess the impact of development projects on HIV/AIDS
Learn from experience
pt. 4. Strategic plan for intensifying action against AIDS in Africa. Goal
Approach
Overcoming barriers
Actions
pt. 5. Planning for implementation at the country level. pt. 6. Staffing and support. pt. 7 Next steps

Two-thirds of the worldʹs HIV/AIDS epidemic is in Africa. Last year alone, the disease killed 1.5 million people. They were not statistics. They were fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, doctors and nurses, primary school teachers, electrical engineers, community leaders, finance managers, entrepreneurs, students, researchers, and farmers trying to lift their families out of poverty. Their spouses and children are now condemned to new hardship. These people died because of the unique concentration of HIV in Africa, but also because the continentʹs leaders -- and its international partners -- have been slow to respond to the epidemic. Not since the bubonic plague of the European Middle Ages has there been so large a threat to hundreds of millions of people -- and to the future of entire economies and societies. -- From executive summary (p.1)

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