Other Wellcome Trust activities in Vietnam and South-east Asia

The Wellcome Trust is committed to spending some £80 million a year on health research in low- and middle-income countries between 2008 and 2012. Since its inception, the Trust has been a strong supporter of research in the tropical regions of the world and supports major research programmes in Africa and Asia.

The Trust's Major Overseas Programmes in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos receive financial, logistical and administrative support from the University of Oxford and the Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine at Oxford (one of four UK centres established in 1995 to focus support for the Trust's tropical medicine fellowship schemes). The Centre provides a UK base to support researchers engaged in projects in other countries.

The Trust supports other activities in South-east Asia. In collaboration with the Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nicholas Taylor of the UK's University of Reading received funding to study the impact of avian influenza and its control measures on village livestock keepers, traders and consumers. The Trust has supported Thai scientists to look at pregnancy and childbirth disorders of local significance. And elsewhere, a team from the University Malaysia Sarawak received funding to study the distribution and virulence markers of enterovirus 71 encephalitis - an emerging infectious disease in the Asia-Pacific region - and develop a strain that might form the basis of a vaccine.

See the map of Vietnam.