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Cooperation to Maintain Functions as Reference Laboratories 
It is important that each research institute participate in the survey activities 
implemented by health ministries and the WHO aimed at improving the health sector 
and for their testing and diagnostic capabilities to be effectively utilized.    It is desirable 
for JICA to review the institutes’ requirements and to provide assistance in terms of 
maintaining research facilities and human capacity development for renewing 
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facilities and equipment as needed. 
 
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Utilization as Research Institutes 
An issue that must be reviewed in future is how JICA will utilize the training functions 
of the NMIMR, the KEMRI, and the UTH Virology and Tuberculosis Laboratories. 
Possible uses include functioning as training facilities for health projects implemented in 
other African countries, as support for training activities carried out independently by 
each institute, or consigning third country training activities to each institute as part of 
South-South Cooperation. 
On the other hand, Japanese research institutes and universities can also utilize the 
research institutes as a training facility for Japanese health personnel. As Japan is 
located in a temperate zone, it has environmental limitations in its study of tropical 
diseases.  With JICA assistance, Japanese students and young researchers can utilize 
these three research institutes, which have established deep ties with Japan.    It is also 
effective to further exchanges between Japan and African countries in the medical 
research field in order to promote infectious diseases research in Japan. 

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