Pakistan HIV prevention project

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World Bank support for Pakistan. Population, Health and Nutrition

® HIV/AIDS Prevention: The project will support the government's

efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. As a priority, the project

will help expand ongoing efforts to prevent the epidemic from

becoming established in vulnerable populations such as commercial sex

workers, injecting drug users and males who have sex with males.

Negotiations completed.

Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: PKPE74856. US$ 37.1 (IDA).

Consulting services will be required. A general procurement notice

and specific requests for expressions of interest have been published

for

(a) providing HIV prevention services among vulnerable populations,

including sex workers, males who have sex with males, injecting drug

users and long-distance truckers,

( providing support to the government for procurement and contract

management,

© monitoring and evaluation, and

(d) provision of HIV and hepatitis B test kits. Retroactive financing

for US$ 1.7 will cover eligible selected activities after 31 March

2002.

National AIDS Control Program, National Institute of Health, Chak

Shahzad,Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 925-5096, Fax:(92-51) 925-

5214, Contact: Dr. Asma Bokhari, National Program Manager; AIDS

Control Program, Directorate of Health Service, Government of Punjab,

Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 920-0982, Fax: (92-42) 920-1142,

Contact: Dr. Ali Razzaq, Provincial Program Manager; AIDS Control

Program, Directorate of Health Services, Government of NWFP,

Peshawar, Pakistan, Tel: (92- 91) 921-0183, Fax: (92-91) 921-

0230/0239, 921-0878, Contact: Dr Zubair Khan, Provincial Program

Manager; AIDS Control Program, Directorate of Health Services,

Government of AJK, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-058) 810-4303,

Fax (92-058) 810-2200, Contact: Dr. Farhat Khalid, (ADG), Provincial

Program Manager; AIDS Control Program, Sindh Health Services

Hospital, M. A. Jinnah Rd., Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 777-

5959/1753, Fax (92-21) 777-1753, Contact: Dr. Syed Sharaf Ali Shah,

Provincial Program Manager; AIDS Control Program, Fatima Jinnah

General & Chest Hospital, Quetta, Pakistan, Tel: (92-081) 854-182,

Contact: Dr. Munir Ahmed Khawajakhail, Provincial Program Manager;

AIDS Control Program, Distict Headquarters Hospital, Northern Areas,

Gilgit, Pakistan, Tel:(92-572) 3690-3368, Contact: Dr. Abdul Latif,

Provincial Program Manager