New Private Equity Fund Launched to Strengthen Health Care in Africa

London/Washington, D.C., June 4, 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.