practical insights in support of enhancing the climate resilience of infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This first introductory chapter starts with an overview of the investment conditions and climatic context in the region …

female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …

evidence to extrapolate the potential impact on the spread of HIV/AIDS in these countries. After the Introduction which …

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic burdens Sub-Saharan Africa … (SSA) and continues to constrain its social and economic advancement. Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has … estimated that in southern Africa alone, 930,000 adults and children died of AIDS in 2005. This represents about one-third of …

investment is required to achieve national targets, if we allocate resources optimally?". The report describes epidemiological … programmatic HIV spending recorded in 2013, Armenia could avert an additional 290 new HIV infections and 288 AIDS-related deaths … from 2015 to 2020 if these resources were allocated optimally to minimize both HIV incidence and AIDS-related deaths …