Asian Development Bank

- Health Sector -

Jacques Jeugmans
Rikard Elfving
2009
Key Policies and Publications
¾ Policy for the Health Sector (1999)
¾ Nutrition and Development Series (2001-2004)
¾ A Primer on Health Impacts of Development
Programs (2004)
¾ Strategy 2020 (2008)
¾ Operational Plan for Improving Health Access
and Outcomes Under Strategy 2020 (2008)
 Operational Plan for Health
Support health outcomes through
• ADB’s work in infrastructure
• governance and public expenditure
management
• regional public goods
• knowledge, analysis, and policy dialogue
• partnerships
 Priority Areas
• HIV/AIDS
• Emerging diseases – communicable diseases
• Health-related MDGs
• Health financing – social health insurance
• Nutrition – food fortification
• Maternal and child health (including
immunization)
• Public-private partnership
• Non-communicable diseases
 Portfolio 2010-2011
Loans and Grants
Project Total Amount
Year No. Country Project Name ($ million)
Strengthening Rural Primary Health Services
2 41509 PNG Delivery 20.00
0 Health Human Resources Sector Development
1 40354 VIE Project 30.00
0 41243 MON Fourth Health Sector Development Project 19.00
41505 GMS Communicable Diseases Control Project II 36.00

Technical Assistance

Project Total Amount

Year TA Type No. Country Project Name ($ million)
2
RDTA 41265 REG Averting Deaths and Costs Among the
0 Poor in Asia: The Economics of Tobacco 0.50
1 Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS
0 PPTA 42179 GMS Prevention
2.60
2011 PPTA 43331 VIE Access to Maternal and Neonatal Care 1.20
Program
 For More Information

ADB Web Site

http://www.adb.org
Health Sector Web site
http://www.adb.org/health/