New ADB platform aims to help end malaria, TB, and dengue in Asia-Pacific
By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 15 July 2025
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.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
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