Press Releases

14/05/2010 - Le Conseil d’administration du Fonds africain de développement (FAD) a approuvé, le 12 mai 2010 à Tunis, un projet d’alimentation en eau potable et assainissement afin d’améliorer les taux d’accès aux services d’eau potable et d’assainissement et de renforcer les capacités de gestion du secteur.

Categories: Cameroon, Water Supply & Sanitation, Health, Human and Social Development

08/06/2009 - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the German development finance institution DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH announced today that they have created a new private equity fund that will invest in Africa’s health sector.

Categories: Private Sector Development, Health, Health in Africa Fund, Human and Social Development

31/01/2008 - The Bank Group on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, in Freetown participated in the launch of the Strengthening District Health Services Project which aims at improving access to quality health care in five districts in the country, namely; Bonthe, Port Loko, Bo, Kenema and Tonkolili. The project will also enhance the institutional capacity of the country’s ministry of health and sanitation.

Categories: Sierra Leone, Health, Human and Social Development

25/04/2006 - Malaria continues to represent a major problem in Africa particularly south of the Sahara. It is estimated that 300 million cases of Malaria occur every year in Africa resulting in up to 2 million deaths, mostly among young children.

Categories: Health

01/12/2005 - The President of the African Development Bank, Mr. Donald Kaberuka, has reiterated the Bank’s commitment to support the campaign to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, warning that the "disease continues to pose an enormous challenge to the world and puts a terrible burden on individuals, families and communities"

Categories: Health, Human and Social Development

18/04/2005 - The "Creation of Sustainable Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Free Areas in West and East Africa" is a first phase project of a 37-country programme called the Pan-African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC). PATTEC is one of the programmes approved by the African Union under the NEPAD Initiative.

Categories: Ghana, Health, Human and Social Development