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World Bank Launches New Strategy to Combat AIDS in Africa


16 May 2008
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimates that in Zambia in 2005, between 53,000 and 250,000 children under the age of 14 were infected with HIV
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimates that in Zambia in 2005, between 53,000 and 250,000 children under the age of 14 were infected with HIV
With the HIV/AIDS epidemic now 25-years-old, the World Bank has launched a new strategy to combat the disease where it is the most prevalent -- Africa. Nearly two million have died on the continent and HIV has cost the World Bank $1.6 billion. In Washington this week, World Bank officials said it's time to move away from an initial "emergency response" to a new four-year action agenda. Producer Zulima Palacio has the story. Carol Pearson narrates.

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