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Improving Health in Asia and the Pacific
Health is a human right and is essential to development. Good health improves learning capacity, worker productivity, and income. ADB is committed to improving health in Asia and the Pacific by supporting better governance and spending, infrastructure development, and regional collaboration to control communicable diseases.
ADB is focusing on its core areas of expertise in order to better support programs directed at improving overall health in Asia and the Pacific. The emphasis will shift from stand-alone projects to improving the health impact of infrastructure operations, economic governance and public expenditure, regional public goods, partnerships, and knowledge management.
FAST FACTS
$718 million
total ADB Financing for health projects from 2003-2012
51 (2009)
child mortality rate in developing member economies, down from 89 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990
194 (2008)
maternal mortality ratio for developing member economies, down from an estimated 397 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1990
What's New
Speech | 3 Dec 2012



