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Table 5.17    JICA’s Cooperation in KEMRI 
Contribution to Health Services 
Target diseases 
Research 
Human 
Resources 
Development Surveillance
Reference
Direct 
Contribution 
to the 
Population 
Diagnostic 
kit 
Developme
nt 
Viral Hepatitis 
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HIV/AIDS  
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Opportunistic 
Infections 
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Diarrhoeal 
diseases 
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ARI 
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Schistosomiasis 
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Filariasis 
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Prepared by the investigation team 
 
All 12 diseases mentioned in Table 5.16 are infectious diseases, and JICA has 
cooperated in research activities for 7 of these diseases.  It was confirmed that 
KEMRI conducted activities in human resources development and the improvement of 
health services for 3 diseases out of 9.    Research on viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS in 
particular had achieved significant outputs through the development of diagnostic kits.     
 
5.3.2
 
Achievements of JICA’s Cooperation 
As mentioned in Section 5.3.1, KEMRI has contributed to infectious diseases control 
through cooperation with JICA.  JICA contributed not only to disease control, but 
also to the capacity development of KEMRI.  The achievements of JICA’s 
cooperation in the capacity development of KEMRI are as follows.