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Table 4.13    JICA’s Cooperation with the NMIMR 
Contribution to the Health Services 
Target diseases 
Research 
Human  
Resources 
Development
Surveillance
Reference 
Direct 
Contribution to 
the Population
EPI diseases 
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HIV/AIDS 
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STD 
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TB 
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Schistosomiasis 
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Diarrhoeal diseases 
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Filariasis 
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Malaria 
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Viral haemorrhagic 
fevers 
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Prepared by the investigation team 
 
4.3.2
 
Achievements of JICA’s Cooperation 
As mentioned in section 4.3.1, the NMIMR has contributed to infectious diseases 
control in cooperation with JICA.    JICA contributed not only to diseases control, but 

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also to the capacity development of the NMIMR. The achievements of JICA’s 
cooperation in capacity development with the NMIMR are as follows. 
 
(1)
 
Capacity Development of the NMIMR 
As mentioned in section 4.1.3, it was expected that technical cooperation provided by 
JICA since 1968 aimed to strengthen the research capacity of the NMIMR and also 
strengthen the capacity of medical personnel engaged in infectious diseases control 
though training. 
The NMIMR has implemented collaborative research with foreign institutes such as 
WHO/TDR, DANIDA, and NIH after establishing its research capacity through 
technical cooperation with JICA.    Case examples of this collaborative research by the 
NMIMR that were confirmed in this study are shown on Table 4.14. 
 
Table 4.14    Case Examples of Collaborative Research by the NMIMR 
Overseas Research Institutes 
Research Content 
USAID and EU 
Monitoring and operational research for HIV/AIDS 
Aberdeen University (Scotland) 
PMTCT in IMMPACT(Initiative for Maternal Mortality 
Programme Assessment)   
Centre for Medical Parasitology, University 
of Copenhagen 
Parasitology research 
（
malaria and filariasis
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International Atomic Energy Agency 
(IAEA) 
Research on food contamination 
（
Nutrition Unit
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Institute for Stem Cell. Research,   
University of Edinburgh (Scotland) 
Research on animal experiments 
NIH (USA) 
Research on sickle-cell anaemia (Epidemiology Unit
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Institut Pasteur (France) 
Malaria research 
London School of Hygiene and Tropical 
Medicine (England) 
Malaria research 
（
Epidemiology Unit
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Naval Medical Research Institute 
Malaria research
（
Clinical Pathology and Haematology 
Unit
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Source: NMIMR (1997 – 2003), Annual Report 
 
These research outputs have been regularly reported through Annual Research 
Meetings and also published in internal/external journals (see Figure 4.6). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Figure 4.6    Number of Publications by NMIMR (1998
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2004) 
 
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5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
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ublished
 
Note:  Number of publications as of July 2004. 
Source: NMIMR (1997- 2003), Annual Report 
 
The NMIMR has reglarly published a certain number of articles, although the number 
has fluctuated.  It seems from this that the NMIMR has continuously conducted 
sophisticated research. 
Besides these research activities, the NMIMR has been designated as a National 
Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS since 1989.    In addition, the NMIMR has also 
been designated as a Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio diagnostics since 1992 
by WHO.  Thus, the diagnostic capacity of the NMIMR has been recognized by 
WHO. 
Regarding the technical development of staff members, all units of the NMIMR have a 
staff development plan to improve the educational background and working experience 
of the staff members.    The staff of the NMIMR are able to take training courses for 
PhD and Masters’ degrees using scholarships.  There were 37 staff members in 
training or who were trained in the period 1999 to 2003 (see Table 4.15). 
 

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Table 4.15    Number of Staff in Training or who were Trained during the Period 1999 to 
2003 (full-time and project related) 
Unit: person 
PhD Mphil, 
MPH, 
MSc 
 
Completed In 
Progress Completed In 
Progress 
Total 
Bacteriology 
- 2 1 1 
4 
Clinical 
Pathology 
- 1 1 2 
4 
Electron Microscopy 
- 
1 
- 
1 
2 
Epidemiology 
- 1 3  - 
4 
Immunology 1 
1 
- 
3 
5 
Laboratory 
Animals  - 1 1 1 
3 
Nutrition 1 
1 
- 
1 
3 
Parasitology - 
2 
- 
5 
7 
Virology 
- 2 2 1 
5 
Total 2 
12 
8 
15 
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Source: NMIMR (1997- 2003), Annual Report 
 
The staff members of the NMIMR strive to improve their own capacity by