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Chapter 6 
Abbreviation Proper 
Name 
CBoH 
Central Board of Health 
CDL Chest 
Disease 
Laboratory 
DHB 
District Health Boards 
HMIS 
Health Management Information Systems 
HMB 
Hospital Management Boards 
ICU 
Intensive Curative Unit 
IEC 
Information, Education, and Communication 
NAISP 
National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Intervention Strategic Plan 

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NAC National 
Aids 
Council 
NMCC 
National Malaria Control Centre 
NCH Ndola 
Central 
Hospital 
NTP National 
Tuberculosis 
Programme 
TDRC 
Tropical Diseases Research Centre 
ZANARA 
Zambia National Response to HIV/AIDS Project 
 

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Executive Summary
 
 
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Background and Objectives of the Study
 
Japanese cooperation with Africa through Official Development Assistance (ODA), 
in the field of health and medicine has focused on infectious diseases control, which 
has strengthened cooperation by combining the establishment of research institutes 
with capacity development in such countries as Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia.  
While the research capabilities of the institutes in these countries have been 
enhanced, the focus on cooperation has shifted from the enhancement of research 
capabilities to cooperation targeting the respective nations as a whole.    Under this 
situation, the need to reconsider the functions and role of research institutes for 
infectious diseases has continued to arise. 
In this evaluation study, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research 
(NMIMR) in Ghana, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), and the 
Zambia University Teaching Hospital (UTH) have been selected as evaluation 
targets of Japan’s cooperation in the field of infectious diseases control in Africa 
and their respective series of cooperation activities have been evaluated. 
 
In the 
process of the evaluation study, the outcomes of research on infectious diseases by 
the institutes and their ripple effects on public health were examined by comparing 
the positioning, functions and expecting roles of the institutes in order to extract 
recommendations for project planning and implementation. In this evaluation, the 
analysis was conducted in terms of research, human resources development, and 
contribution to health services, which constitute the functions of the present and 
expected roles of the research institutes in infectious diseases control in the health 
and medical sectors of Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia.