The Institut Pasteur in Dakar (IPD) is a Senegalese Law Foundation, recognized as a charity, non-profit and is allowed to contribute to public health, especially in Africa, particularly in Senegal, through activities of recheche, education, training, medical reports, 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.

Created in 1924, Institut Pasteur de Dakar works to accelerate equitable, sustainable and affordable access to health in Africa. As a Senegalese not-for-profit foundation recognized as being of public utility.