In an April appearance before the United Nations Security Council, World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn warned that AIDS is turning back the clock on development and undermining economic and social hope.
 
In the same month, the Bank joined in partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the United Children’s Fund and the Clinton Foundation to make generic drugs available to people infected with HIV/AIDS in more than 100 poor countries.
 
The Bank – one of the largest sources of financing for HIV/AIDS programs – also took part in the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.