Japan to Set Up Tuberculosis Prevention Center in Philippines

The Japanese embassy said that Philippine President Gloria Arroyo had accepted a proposal from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for Japan to build a regional Southeast Asian TB center in the Philippines. Japan has exported TB prevention techniques to the Philippines for the last ten years as part of an effort to establish a network against infectious diseases, the embassy said. In the past, Japan funded the construction of two TB prevention facilities in the Philippines that can host seminars and workshops and gather data on the disease in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN countries, which include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have more than 360,000 people infected by TB.

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