effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions. The volume presents data on the surgical burden of … disease, disability, congenital anomalies, and trauma, along with health impact and economic analyses of procedures, platforms ….5 million deaths a year and rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. Existing health care delivery …

scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) and associated health services, such as basic and palliative care, disease prevention … Bank staff and those responsible for procuring HIV/AIDS medicines and related supplies in Bank-funded programs and projects …-which could include either procurement agency staff or technical agency staff. Policymakers and Bank partners will also benefit …

Moldova, where public health conditions are also rapidly deteriorating. Second, because of their geographical location, those …

for individuals-and for the region's health systems, economies, and social fabric. HIV/AIDS is therefore a multisectoral … development challenge and, consequently, a corporate priority for the World Bank. This report outlines a strategic direction for … the World Bank in its multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region. It describes the risk …

pose to many of the World Bank's client countries. It is an instrument to guide the World Bank's role in the global … 2015. The document provides a unifying framework for the World Bank's work on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia … constraints, and the Bank's plans for helping countries do so as part of a multi-institutional effort. HIV/AIDS is fast becoming a …

recognized by the World Bank as a call to action to support these countries through the application of its comparative advantage … of the World Bank), to evaluate the approaches and strategies currently being used in each country, and to make … recommendations both for government strategies and for the Bank's current and potential future involvement in relation to these …

epidemics to grow, the World Bank can help client countries incorporate effective prevention strategies into health systems …, economic development, and health systems reform. In Russia, economic analysis has described the significant future impact on … health and health systems if the concentrated epidemic in that country goes unchecked (Ruhl et al. 2002). The opportunity for …