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The World Bank's Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa : Our Agenda for Action, 2007-2011The World Bank is committed to support
 Sub-Saharan Africa in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
 This Agenda for Action (AFA) is a road map for the next five
 years to guide Bank management and staff in fulfilling that
 commitment. It underscores the lessons learned and outlines
 a line of action. HIV/AIDS remains and will remain for the
 foreseeable future an enormous economic, social, and human
 challenge to Sub-Saharan Africa. This region is the global
 epicenter of the disease. About 22.5 million Africans are
 HIV positive, and AIDS is the leading cause of premature
 death on the continent. HIV/AIDS affects young people and
 women disproportionately. Some 61 percent of those who are
 HIV positive are women, and young women are three times more
 likely to be HIV positive than are young men. As a result of
 the epidemic, an estimated 11.4 million children under age
 18 have lost at least one parent. Its impact on households,
 human capital, the private sector, and the public sector
 undermines the alleviation of poverty, the Bank's
 overarching mandate. In sum, HIV/AIDS threatens the
 development goals in the region unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Our commitment : The World Bank's Africa Region HIV/AIDS Agenda for Action 2007-2011The World Bank is committed to support sub-Sahara Africa in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This Agenda for Action is a road map for Bank management and staff over the next five years to fulfill that commitment. It focuses on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS activities into broader national development agendas as a critical aspect of economic growth and human capacity development. In preparing the Agenda for Action, consultations have been carried out over several months with a broad constituency, including countries, donors, communities and nonprofit organizations.
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The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape :
 Selected Papers for the World Bank's Agenda for Action
 in Africa, 2007-2011The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan
 Africa remains a long-term development challenge for the
 region. Nearly 12 million African children have been
 orphaned as a result of the disease, and 22.5 million people
 in Africa 61 percent of them women live with HIV. The
 hyperepidemics in Southern Africa have diluted poverty
 reduction efforts and in several countries substantially
 reduced life expectancy. The critical need to address this
 development problem is reflected in the sixth Millennium
 Development Goal (MDG), which seeks to halt and begin to
 reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 and to make access to
 treatment for HIV/AIDS universal for all those who need it
 by 2010. With Sub-Saharan Africa representing nearly
 two-thirds of those living with HIV globally, and the fact
 that human development indicators of several countries in
 the region lag far behind the rest of the world, prospects
 for Sub-Saharan Africa reaching any of the MDG goals will
 require a sustained response to HIV/AIDS. Reversing the
 spread of HIV/AIDS is closely linked to combating other
 major diseases referenced in sixth MDG, promoting gender
 equality (MDG 3), reducing child mortality (MDG 4) and
 improving maternal health (MDG 5).