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USAID steps up anti-AIDS program.
USAID Highlights ; 8(3): 1-4, 1991.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12284337
PIP: This article considers the epidemic proportion of AIDS in developing countries, and discusses the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) reworked and intensified strategy for HIV infection and AIDS prevention and control over the next 5 years. Developing and launching over 650 HIV and AIDS activities in 74 developing countries since 1986, USAID is the world's largest supporter of anti-AIDS programs. Over $91 million in bilateral assistance for HIV and AIDS prevention and control have been committed. USAID has also been the largest supporter of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS since 1986. Interventions have included training peer educators, working to change the norms of sex behavior, and condom promotion. Recognizing that the developing world will increasingly account for an ever larger share of the world's HIV-infected population, USAID announced an intensified program of estimated investment increasing to approximately $400 million over a 5-year period. Strategy include funding for long-term, intensive interventions in 10-15 priority countries, emphasizing the treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases which facilitate the spread of HIV, making AIDS-related policy dialogue an explicit component of the Agency's AIDS program, and augmenting funding to community-based programs aimed at reducing high-risk sexual behaviors. The effect of AIDS upon child survival, adult mortality, urban populations, and socioeconomic development in developing countries is discussed. Program examples are also presented.^ieng
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Peer Group / Public Policy / Research / Sexual Behavior / Socioeconomic Factors / Teaching / Therapeutics / Tuberculosis / Urban Population / World Health Organization Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Health_economic_evaluation / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Country/Region as subject: Africa / America do norte / Asia / Republica dominicana Language: En Journal: USAID Highlights Year: 1991 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Peer Group / Public Policy / Research / Sexual Behavior / Socioeconomic Factors / Teaching / Therapeutics / Tuberculosis / Urban Population / World Health Organization Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Health_economic_evaluation / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspects: Determinantes_sociais_saude Country/Region as subject: Africa / America do norte / Asia / Republica dominicana Language: En Journal: USAID Highlights Year: 1991 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States