From 2-6 June 2008, EDCTP visited several EDCTP supported institutions in Ghana. The EDCTP team consisted of Dr Pascoal Mocumbi (High Representative), Simon Belcher (Director of Finance and Administration), Dr Michael Makanga (Capacity Development Manager) and Professor David Ofori-Adjei (the DCCC member from Ghana). The team had meetings with the scientists and management of the following institutions:

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Accra
NMIMR is involved in an EDCTP supported project on protection from clinical malaria using the in-vitro P. falciparum growth inhibition assay.

School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkurumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumas
At the KNUST School of Medical Sciences, two EDCPT supported clinical trials on intravenous artesunate for severe malaria in African children and on artemisinin-based combination treatments for pregnant women with malaria are supported.

University of Ghana Medical School, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
Korle-Bu Hospital is part of a regional Network of Excellence project on capacity building to prepare West African sites for clinical trials on HIV, TB and Malaria.

The EDCTP team had separate meetings with the Honourable Minister of Health, Republic of Ghana, Major Courage E.K. Quashigah (RTD); Mr Isaac Adams, Officer in charge of health research in Ministry of Health; Dr Joaquim Saweka, WHO Representative to Ghana; Prof. Aaron Lante Lawson, Provost College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana; Prof A. K. Nyarko, Director Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical research; Prof Christine Ntim-Amponsah, Dean, University of Ghana Medical School; Mr E. Kyeremateng Agyarko, Chief Executive Food and Drugs Board (FDB) Ghana; Rev. J.Y. Martey Ag. Deputy Chief Executive (Drugs) FDB Ghana; Professor George Badu Amoah, Chairperson of the Ghana National Ethics Committee; Prof. Ohene Adjei, Deputy Director KCCR; Dr Frank Adae Bonsu, Programme Manager of Ghana national TB control programme; Professor Laud K.N. Okine, Director of Centre for Scientific Research Into Plant Medicine, Accra and other senior officials.