The World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS.

s and Reports 149 munication and cooperation about AIDS, and the Director-General announced that 1 December 1988 would be “World AIDS Day.” (See pp. 234-236 in this issue for a report on the summit.) WHO/United Nations Development Program (UNDP) alliance to combat AIDS. To ensure the best possible coordination among all those working to combat AIDS, to address the concerns of many countries about uncoordinated or inappropriate offers of external assistance, and to respond to the insistence of donor agencies for well-coordinated activities in countries as a prerequisite for their support, WHO’s Director-General has completed negotiations with the Administrator of UNDP to combine the strengths of that agency and the Global Program on AIDS. World Bank. The World Bank is collaborating with the Program in studies on the economic impact of AIDS in the developing world and on the demographic impact of AIDS. During the first quarter of 1988, the initial development phase was completed of a model for estimating direct-treatment costs and indirect costs from years of social and economic productivity lost due to HIV infections and