The World Bank Group’s mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a liveable planet. Ensuring everyone, including those at risk of or affected by HIV, has access to essential services and the underlying systems are effective, equitable and sustainable is a critical part of that undertaking.
The World Bank puts health at the heart of its Human Capital Project to drive more and better investments in people, including those affected by and vulnerable to HIV.
The breadth and depth of the World Bank portfolio provide important opportunities to advance integrated approaches to improve outcomes and systemic support for HIV responses, including through progress on key contributors to HIV success. The World Bank’s US$ 27 billion health portfolio included approximately 160 projects in over 100 countries to improve outcomes and strengthen the health systems HIV responses rely upon.
The World Bank strongly emphasizes sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness, for example by using available resources wisely and redesigning HIV and broader health programming to optimize resources and service delivery and transition to new funding approaches in a rapidly shifting funding landscape. Leveraging data and innovation, including opportunities in digital health and service delivery, is an essential part of this approach. The World Bank also supports work in other areas that improve HIV outcomes, such as gender, social protection, education and service access in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
