This note summarizes challenges, responses and lessons learned by two World Bank supported projects addressing HIV/AIDS in the road sector. These are: The Joint Regional HIV/AIDS Project in the Abidjan Lagos Transport Corridor (Corridor Project) and the Ethiopia Road Sector Development Program (RSDP). While the Corridor Project is regional and addresses HIV/AIDS on the road between Abidjan and Lagos, the RSDP is a country specific road construction program with an HIV/AIDS component.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic burdens Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and continues to constrain its social and economic advancement. UNAIDS estimated that in Southern Africa alone 930,000 adults and children died of AIDS, in 2005. This represents about one-third of AIDS deaths recorded globally that year. In addition, about 12 million children below the age of 17 in SSA are estimated to have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Transport workers, migrant workers, and local populations in border communities and migrant populations in general are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

This study, conducted by the SITRASS network on behalf of the World Bank, is aimed at assessing in detail the conditions applicable to mobility and access to urban services by the poor populations of Conakry, so as to provide background for the identification of targeted programs of action. The study is based on fieldwork conducted in the fall of 2003, with a similar study being carried out simultaneously in Douala: personal interviews and household surveys on daily mobility, focused on the poorest individuals and households.

Presented by Herman Kwoba on November 25, 2019 at SSATP's Annual General Meeting in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, this presentation entitled 'Climate Change Mitigation: Ministerial Work on an Annual Integrated Transport and Climate Report' showcases the German Ministry for Environment's International Climate Initiative in Kenya.