The World Bank will give US$26.9 million to Central Asian countries to implement Central Asian AIDS project till 2010.

The given initiative of the World Bank was presented in Washington D.C. at the HIV/AIDS meeting for the Caribbean countries.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the result of the meeting between 16 countries of the Caribbean and the Central Asian AIDS Control Project.

The regional meeting of Central Asian countries will be held in December of 2006 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in order to discuss HIV/AIDS project implementation related issues.