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Empowering the poor and marginalized for AIDS prevention, care, and mitigation. Vinod Thomas Director-General, Evaluation Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank August 15, 2006. Africa and Latin America have the world’s highest levels of income inequality.
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Empowering the poor and marginalized for AIDS prevention, care, and mitigation Vinod Thomas Director-General, Evaluation Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank August 15, 2006
Africa and Latin America have the world’s highest levels of income inequality
AIDS has reversed decades of hard-won gains in life expectancy in Southern Africa
The marginalized are at higher risk of HIV infection: Female sex workers Source: UNAIDS 2006
The marginalized are at higher risk of HIV infection: Injecting drug users Source: UNAIDS 2006
Public sector support for prevention among high-risk groups is declining in Africa Source: IEG (OED) 2005.
Growth in targeted interventions for high-risk groups in Brazil, 1999-2003 Source: IEG (OED) 2005