The Asian Development Bank is working on a new flagship regional initiative to help accelerate the elimination of some of Asia-Pacific’s biggest climate-sensitive diseases.
ExCITD, short for Ending CompleX and Challenging Infectious and Tropical Diseases, is expected to involve a mix of concessional loans and grant funding from different partners to help scale solutions to ending diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and dengue, which are rising or resurging in different places in the region.
The bank hopes the initiative, which will have a strong emphasis on partnerships, will help the region to eliminate these diseases within the next decade.