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Virology Laboratory and Tuberculosis Laboratory of the University Teaching 
Hospital: UTH   
JICA started the University of Zambia Medical School Project with the purpose of 
enhancing technology in the areas of neonatal care and paediatric surgery from 1980. 
When the University of Zambia Medical School Project was closed in 1989, the 
importance of prevention, diagnosis, and care for infectious diseases in infants was 
emphasized as a recommendation of the final evaluation of the project.    In response to 
the request of the Zambian government, after the year 1989, JICA designated the UTH 
as an implementing agency and carried out three technical cooperation projects aimed at 
infectious diseases control.  The Virology Laboratory and the Tuberculosis (TB) 
Laboratory, which belong to the laboratory services department of the UTH, served as 
counterparts for these projects, and JICA conducted technical cooperation to establish 
the diagnostic capacity for infectious diseases in Zambia.  Moreover, in order to 
develop the infrastructure for research activities, JICA constructed a building for the 

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Virology Laboratory in 1991, and a building for the TB Laboratory using the budget for 
project-type technical cooperation.   
A series of cooperation activities was initiated with the aim of establishing the 
diagnostic capacity for infectious diseases in Zambia.  These focused on the 
establishment and capacity building of the Virology Laboratory of the UTH in the initial 
stage of cooperation.    After the Virology Laboratory acquired the necessary technology 
and facilities, the target of the cooperation was expanded nationwide through its