Signing ceremony by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Lao Ministry of Health for the SATREPS project on “Development of Innovative Research Technique in Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases in Lao PDR for their Containment of their Expanding Endemnicity”. This project will be carried out for the most part at Institut Pasteur of Laos and Centre for Malariology Parasitology and Entomology for a period of 5 years. This technical assistance is important and timely given the fact that Plasmodium drug resistance may be suspected in Lao PDR and the region and could impact the world malaria situation. Dr. Shigeyuki Kano and his team from National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo are working at the forefront of this subject, will establish a lab within Institut Pasteur of Laos. Furthermore, NCGM and Institut Pasteur of Laos have composed a team of experts to address the subject of Malaria drug resistance, but also on the study of other parasitic diseases, such as Schistosomiasis and Opistorchiasis, which also plague Lao PDR.
