title: Ghana/JICA/WHO training course in polio diagnostic procedures and vaccine potency testing.
abstract: The Ghana/Japan International Cooperation Agency/WHO training course in polio diagnostic procedures and vaccine potency testing was initiated at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana for 5 consecutive years from 1992. The purpose of the course is to create virologists and technicians competent in the laboratory methods to support the polio eradication initiative in Africa. The participants are invited mainly from anglophone countries in the region.
authors.affiliation: Medical Cooperation Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayakawa
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007564:Japan; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated; D014773:Virology / Q000193:education*; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated