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EAST ASIA

SOUTH KOREA

The U.S.-Korea Science and Technology Agreement was signed November 1976 and subsequently renewed in 1992, 1999, and 2004. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea signed in July 2003 a Memorandum of Understanding on Health and Medical Sciences.

THAILAND

NIH has had a long-standing history of cooperation in biomedical research with Thailand. One of the first awards for International Collaboration in Infectious Disease Research awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was to the University of Illinois and Chiang Mai University in 1981 for work in leprosy. Since 1988, FIC has also invested significant resources in the country through the AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). Thailand is now in the planning stages of two phase III evaluations of AIDS vaccines, one developed by Genentech and a second developed by Biocine. Over the years, NIH has received a number of visitors from Thailand, including Princess Chulabhorn, an organic chemist and the director of the Chulabhorn Research Institute.

VIETNAM

A bilateral Science and Technology agreement between Vietnam and the United States was signed in November 2000. In July 2006, the Department of Health and Human Services signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health to cooperate in the areas of health and medical sciences.