The Institut Pasteur in Dakar (IPD) is a Senegalese Law Foundation, state-approved, non-profit and is allowed to contribute to public health, especially in Africa and especially in Senegal, conducting activities recheche, education, training, medical examinations, epidemiological and biological and production of yellow fever vaccine, as provided by the statutes signed between the Government of the Republic of Senegal and the Pasteur Institute September 29, 2009.