The African Development Bank finances a United Nations project to confront AIDS in four African countries

The African Development Bank (ADB) has allocated 5.2 million dollars to the fight against AIDS along the Congo, Oubangui and Chari rivers, which flow through the territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, and Chad. These are the areas most devastated by AIDS (on the continent having 70% of the world's infected population).

For the design and execution of this plan, the ADB, UNOPS (given its expertise on the subject worldwide) and UNAIDS will work together, in cooperation with the governments of the countries in which the plan will be implemented.

For more information, please contact the representative of the FAO in the DRC and the systems coordinator of the United Nations, Adrianus Spijkers.