Also within malaria research, workshops have been instrumental in disseminating research results and resulted in various meetings with the Ministry of Health regarding follow-up of the results. In other areas, such as parasitology, interacting with colleagues in the field is an important way of defining the research agenda and bringing the research results back to the users in the field. Research results also influence on the contents of the curricula and to a limited extent also on the policy of the Ministry of Health. However, this situation is about to change. A long range of northern universities are involved in collaboration programmes.
NUFU collaboration is a cornerstone in the collaboration activities with northern universities.
Regarding south-south collaboration, the programme on social sciences and medicine is mentioned as a representative example. The universities of Eastern Africa hold regular meetings and wish to have more co-ordination of their activities. The former Inter University Council of the East African Community is on its way to being revived. Consultants are working on this issue. Training and research collaboration will be main components of the new concept, but it will all depend upon funding.