To construct an international science and technology community that makes use of the leadership of Japan, and to strengthen and create cooperative relationships between Japan and the Asian and African countries and regions at the governmental level, through implementation of synergistic international joint research with Asian and African countries and regions while bringing out the high research potential of Japan, as a part of a coordinated effort to strengthen science and technology diplomacy .

　Neglected Tropical Diseases are a group of communicable diseases which thrive in improverished settings and blight the lives of around one billion people worldwide, which threatening the health of millions more.