The CENAREST (National Center for Scientific and Technologic Research) that evaluates and carries out research in Gabon, contributes to the application and promotion of research results and supports research training. The CIRMF (International Medical Research Centre of Franceville), a Gabonese world-renowned scientific research center, inaugurated in 1979, the CIRMF had for an initial focus to study the reasons for infertility in Central African populations. By the mid 1980s, CIRMF broadened its research to focus also on tropical diseases including HIV, trypanosomiasis and malaria. More recently CIRMF concentrated also on EIDs including the deadly ebola and marburg viruses, CHIKV and DENV. 63 Its central position in Africa and its world-renowned researchers ensure that CIRMF benefits from support and collaboration from several international institutions including the WHO (World Health Organization), the CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le développement), the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), the Pasteur Institute, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and several overseas universities from Europe, North America, South America and Asia. International NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are also involved in research on emerging diseases in Gabon. For example, the WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) with its 'One World, One Health' Program and the Zoological Society of London and its 'Mikongo Conservation Centre' are working on great ape diseases, wildlife monitoring and the bush meat trade.