Gender Action report examines international bank spending on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS

Gender Action recently released a new report (.pdf), titled "Banking on Health: World Bank and African Development Bank Spending on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa," according to the organization's website. The report, based on fieldwork in Cameroon and Uganda, "reviews World Bank and AfDB projects to highlight how good quality matters as much as high quantity in reproductive and sexual health and HIV/AIDS spending," the website notes. In addition to the report, Gender Action created a database (.xls) "containing comprehensive information about World Bank and AfDB investments (2000-2012) addressing reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African countries," the website states (10/9).