News & Events
18/01/2012 - The African Development Bank and the Government of Uganda signed two separate agreements on 12 January to finance projects to improve health services delivery and access to water and sanitation in both urban and rural areas of Uganda, with a total investment of USD 155.8 million. This double deal is expected to boost the country’s efforts to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals for health, water and sanitation.
Categories: Uganda, Water Supply & Sanitation, Health
18/01/2012 - Kampala residents in Uganda will gain access to better healthcare with the implementation of the Mulago Hospital service delivery improvement project co-financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group to the tune of USD 98.8 million.
09/12/2011 - UK medical journal The Lancet recently headlined climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Yet this presents a triple-win opportunity for Africa with three development agendas. With just 12.3 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the global disease burden, harnessing health and poverty reduction goals to climate-change mitigation and adaptation strategies makes financial and logistical sense.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Health, Poverty Reduction
01/12/2011 - This year’s global theme for the commemoration of World AIDS Day “Getting to Zero – Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS related deaths” has a deeper meaning for Africa, a continent which unfortunately still bears the largest burden of the pandemic.
16/11/2011 - Africa’s population is ageing, just like in the rest of the world, but the continent’s governments are badly equipped to handle the growing number of older people.
Categories: Human and Social Development, Health, Chief Economist's Office
06/11/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) lent a strong voice to the international dialogue on health and development at the recent launch of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative. The forum, whose theme was "World Health Stage: Imagining Global Health Anew," brought together renowned health and development professionals from around the world, interested in promoting new ways of thinking through global health challenges and finding new solutions to the gaps that still exist in health and health care.
Categories: Netherlands, Health, Human and Social Development
08/07/2011 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a loan of USD 88.8 million (UA 56 million) to finance The Improvement of Health Services Delivery at Mulango Hospital and the City of Kampala Project in Uganda. Mulago Hospital is the main National Referral and Teaching Hospital in Uganda
07/07/2011 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved, during its regular session held on 6 July 2011, four development projects totaling USD 157 million.
Categories: Chad, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Health, Infrastructure
06/06/2011 - “It’s time to change the health agenda in Africa,” urged Agnes Soucat, human development department director at the African Development Bank (AfDB). She was adressing participants at a seminar titled, “Beyond Aid: New Agenda for Health Financing”, ahead of the 2011 annual meetings of the Bank in Lisbon, Portugal.
Categories: Health
15/03/2011 - "The African Development Bank is one of the reliable friends who stands by you before you even launch an appeal for help”, said Tunisia’s Planning and International Cooperation Minister, Abdelhamid Triki, on Monday, 14 March 14, 2011. Mr. Triki was speaking after the signing ceremony of a one-million-dollar emergency humanitarian assistance grant from the AfDB in support of displaced people at the Tunisia-Libya border.
Categories: Tunisia, Libya, United States of America, Health, Human and Social Development
