Canada And Health Results - Message From The Minister

Fact Sheets

Working to improve people’s health around the world is an important priority for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Good health is crucial to ensuring that development is sustainable: unhealthy children have trouble learning at school; families go hungry when farmers are too sick to work the fields; and businesses fail when employees are not healthy enough to come in to work.

Our government is committed to ensuring the effectiveness of every aid dollar we spend. Aid works. CIDA’s investments in health are proving this with concrete, large-scale results. These results support the health-related Millennium Development Goals to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

These goals, agreed to by the international community, underscore the importance of ensuring the effectiveness of our aid investments. For the goals to be met, we, as a global community, need to work in effective partnerships focused on making them happen. To do this, the real emphasis of our work needs to be on results.

I am pleased to share these health results fact sheets, the first in a series that will demonstrate CIDA’s accountability for development results. The fact sheets highlight key areas in which CIDA works with partners to improve people’s health around the world: tuberculosis, measles, vitamin A, river blindness, salt iodization, HIV/AIDS, child mortality, effective health management and malaria.

As you will see when you read the fact sheets, Canada is making a major difference in the world.


The Honourable Josée Verner
Minister of International Cooperation