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International Parasite Control 
The Japanese government submitted a proposal (Hashimoto initiative) at the 
Birmingham G7 Economic Summit in 1998 to establish centres to foster personnel and 
to create a network in Asia and Africa aimed at strengthening international 
countermeasures to deal with human parasites.  Three centres in Thailand, Kenya, 
and Ghana were proposed.  Based on the proposed plan, the Asia Centres of 
International Parasite Control was established in Thailand in 2000, the Eastern and 
Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control (ESACIPAC) was established 
in Kenya in 2001. 
In Ghana, the Infectious Diseases Control Project launched a package of third-county 
training for de-worming activities through school health education.  Then, the GOG 
and the Government of Japan agreed to establish the West African Centre for 

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International Parasite Control (WACIPAC), which was designated as a technical 
cooperation project, and was started in January 2004.