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    ABIDJAN

    The Japanese government has allocated at least 282 million francs (US $381,000) under its non-reimbursable fund for small local projects, to support health initiatives in Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.

    Cote d'Ivoire was allocated over 240 million francs (about $326,000), the bulk of which will be channelled to the health ministry and the newly created HIV/AIDS ministry to combat yellow fever, HIV/AIDS and epidemiological diseases, a communiqué from the Japanese embassy in Abidjan said.

    It added some 40 million francs ($54,000) will be used to drill six boreholes for schools in Daloa, 382 km west of Abidjan while 25 million francs ($34,000) will be used to create an orthopedic center at Bouake Teaching Hospital. The rest will be used to buy medicine for local health centers.

    In Burkina Faso, the focus will be on HIV/AIDS with 41.4 million francs ($56,000) being donated to an HIV resource and information centre, Association du Centre d'Information, de Conseil et de Documentation du Burkina Faso.

    Japan initiated its non-reimbursable fund in Cote d'Ivoire in 1989, eight years before it began the similar scheme in Burkina Faso. The Japanese funds seek to improve living conditions of rural communities.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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