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Diarrhoeal Diseases 
Diarrhoeal diseases are one of main groups of diseases in Kenya, and JICA projects 
also studied diarrhoea from 1979 to 1996.  Diagnostic techniques for viral and 
bacterial diarrhoea were transferred to KEMRI at the initial stage of JICA’s 
cooperation, and then research activities using these diagnostic techniques were 
started.    Besides these studies, KEMRI conducted actual practical measures such as 

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the selection of affordable and effective antibiotics and the provision of medicines on 
the occasion of an outbreak of cholera/dysentery in Mombasa, and also conducted 
educational activities to prepare brochures and video programmes for diarrhoea 
control.    The research activities on diarrhoeal diseases by KEMRI were terminated in 
1996 when the Project on Research and Control of Infectious Diseases was terminated.