John Nkengasong: A Decade of Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa: Then, Now and Future
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Victor Bigira: Breaking the Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Monitoring: Uganda’s Strategy for Public Sector Viral Load Monitoring Implementation
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Erwan Piriou: Time for Change? An Evaluation of the Tie-Breaker Algorithm and the Role of Weakly Reactive Test Lines in Contributing to a High Rate of False Positive HIV Results
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Franklin Kitheka: Monitoring the Quality of Rapid HIV Testing Using a National Register: Results from the Initial Implementation Phase in Kenya
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Elizabeth Luman: Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) – A Systematic Review of Research Issues, Results, and Remaining Gaps
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Eric Wakaria: Challenges Facing Implementation of Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) Program in
Blood Transfusion Service in Kenya
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Thomas Gachuki: The Road to Laboratory Accreditation Through SLMTA: Key Success Factors
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Adino Desale: Perceptions and Attitudes Towards SLMTA among Laboratory Professionals and Hospital Chief Executive Officers in Ethiopia
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Gisele Guevara: The Impact of the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) Training Program in Improving Laboratory Quality Systems in the Caribbean Region
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Katy Yao: Evidence from 501 Laboratories in 39 Countries for SLMTA-Driven Improvement in Quality Management Systems
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Thomas Gachuki: The Road to Laboratory Accreditation Through SLMTA: Key Success Factors
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Abebaw Kebede: Laboratory Based Second-line Anti-TB Drug Resistance Surveillance in Ethiopia
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Chisom Ukaegbu: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in HIV Negative and HIV Positive Cases in Jos, Nigeria
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Emmanuel Fajardo: Added Value of Performing a Second Xpert MTB/RIF Test on a Second Sputum Sample to Confirm Rifampicin Resistance:Analysis of Routinely Collected Data in MSF-Supported Sites in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Kenya
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D. M. Cirillo: Illumina Technology for Multiples-Amplicon Sequencing can be Used for Identification of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
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Eleanor Ochodo: Translating Results of Diagnostic Tests into Practice: The Case of Shistosomiasis
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Joseph Enuma: Is Malaria an Opportunistic Infection Among HIV/AIDS Patients in Nigeria?
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Ogunniyi Abiodun: Validation and Comparison of Cyscope Microscope, Quantitative Buffy Coat, and Rapid Diagnostic Kit for Malaria Diagnosis among Clinic Attendees in Southwest Nigeria
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Michael Aidoo: Field Evaluation of Dried Plasmodium falciparum Samples for Malaria RDT Quality Control and Proficiency Testing in Liberia and Ethiopia
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Crystal Viljoen: Comparison of Stained versus Unstained Simulated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Microscopy Smears for Proficiency Testing
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Nzovu Ulenga: Strengthening National Laboratory Proficiency Testing (PT) in Tanzania
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Talkmore Maruta: The Role of Laboratory Associations in Laboratory System Strengthening in Africa
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Patrick Mateta: Building a Sustainable Team for Tanzania’s Hospital Laboratories
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Charles Kiyaga: EID Lab Consolidation Supported by the Sample Transport Network has Improved Access and Program Monitoring in Uganda
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Carol Porter: Improving Patient Referral Linkages Through Implementation of a National Sample Transportation Program in 7 Districts in Malawi
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Alex Coutinho: Practice of Laboratory Medicine in Africa: Strong Institutions
and Partnerships
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Peter Piot: Informing Policy from a Microbiologist’s Perspective
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Salim Karim: Laboratory Science: Sanctuary of Scientific and Clinical Research Discovery
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Anthony Emeribe: Situational Analysis and Progress with Laboratory Workforce
Development in Africa
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Ilesh Jani: Situational Analysis and Progress with Strengthening Laboratory
Networks in Africa
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Fausta Mosha: Laboratory Workforce Development through Public Health Laboratory
Networking in East Africa
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Mamo Umuro: Transforming National Public Health Laboratory Systems in
East Africa: Kenya Case Study
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Martin Matu: Integrated Laboratory Systems Improvement: Experience with
a Peer Review Laboratory Programme under the East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project
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Jason Williams: Data Driven Harmonization and Lab Network Optimisation Strategies:
Addressing the 90-90-90 Target
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Zach Katz: Pricing Related Issues with Diagnostics
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Jonathan Lehe: Overview of Viral Load Capacity Across Africa
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Tom Ellman: Country Case Studies of MSF Support to Viral Load Scale Up
in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Thomas M. Shinnick: Coordination and Sustainability: The Role of GLI Partnerships in
Optimising TB Lab Services in Africa
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Patience Dabula: Does Accreditation of Medical Laboratories Benefit Patients in the
South Africa Public Healthcare Facilities?
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Sylvia Sax: Healthcare Accreditation as an Enabler to Health Systems
Strengthening
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Shanon Hader: Global Health Emergencies: Role of Laboratory Medicine
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Peter Lamptey: Uniting Laboratory Science, Policy, and Implementation
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Agnes Kijo: Quality Assurance of HIV Diagnostics in Tanzania
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Fausta Mosha: Changing the Culture of Laboratory Quality Practices Through
SLIPTA in Tanzania
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Judith Shang: Old Concepts, Innovative Tools, Evolving Strategies: The Cameroon SLIPTA
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Ndlovu Nqobile: The SLIPTA Process: Its Reach Now and Beyond
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Kone Sindou: Role of Countries and Regional Committees in Laboratory Workforce Harmonisation
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Duncan Blair: Industry Perspectives on Market Intelligence
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Jonathan Lehe: HIV Market Intelligence
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Leigh Berrie: TB Market Intelligence
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Vincent Habiyambere: WHO AMDS Survey
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Kara Palamountain: Lynx (EID only) – Product Update
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Nei-Yuan Hsiao: Field Evaluations of the Alereq point-of-care system for EID
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Fausta Mosha: Out With Old; In With New in Tanzania
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Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo: Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa: Role of Labs in Supporting the
Ongoing Efforts to Control the Outbreak
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Doreen Masire: A Clinician’s Perspective on How to Strengthen Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine in Africa
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Michael Wilson: Similarities Between Laboratory Medicine and Anatomic Pathology
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Ndlovu Nqobile: Building Laboratory Capacity to Improve Access to Effective Diagnostic Tests
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Tom Chiller: Cryptococcus neoformans
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Beverley Anne Singh: Assessment of a Revised Protocol for Selection of HIV Rapid Tests for the National HCT Programme in South Africa
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Bradford Cunningham: Connectivity: Instrument and Information Management at Point-of-Care – Experience vs. Expectation
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Kyabayinze DJ: Positive Control Wells (PCW) for Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT): Training Effectiveness, Impact on RDT Use and Health Worker Perceptions in Lao PDR and Uganda
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Mbensa Kuediasala: Séroprévalence des Marqueurs Spécifiques de l’Hépatite B Chez les Donneurs de Sang Vénévoles à Kinshasa, R.D. Congo
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Souleymane Sawadogo: Prevalence of Cryptococcus Antigenemia (CrAg) among a Sample of HIV-infected Individuals in Namibia
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Raymond N’Guessan: Improved Laboratory Diagnosis of MDR-TB Cases is Revealing Care and Treatment Scale-Up Needs in Côte d’Ivoire
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Yetunde Isa: GeneXpert MTB/RIF: Observed Error Rates and Invalid Results After Twelve Months of Regular Use
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Simon Walusimbi: Comparison of SpeedOligo test to Xpert MTB/Rif test for detection of Tuberculosis in smear-negative HIV-infected patients
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Nomcebo Phungwayo: Estimated Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Prevalence in Children Below the Age of 5 Years in Swaziland During Period Jan-Dec 2013
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Kenneth Onyedibe: The Necessity of Full Sepsis Work-Up in Neonatal Sepsis: Experience in a Resource-Limited Setting
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Fredrick Oyier: Identifying Etiologic Agents of Diarrhoea Through Active Laboratory-Based Surveillance in Dadaab, Kenya, 2011-2013
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Eduardo Samo Gudo: Keeping Pace Towards Accreditation in the Post-SLMTA Phase: Mozambique Experience
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Rosebella Rotich: Assessment of Patient Customer Satisfaction at Kitale District Hospital Laboratory 2013
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Patrina Chongo: Keeping Pace Towards Accreditation in the Post-SLMTA Phase:
The Mozambique Experience
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Jeannette Guarner: Building Capacity in Laboratory Medicine in Africa by Increasing Physician Involvement: A Laboratory Medicine Course for Clinicians
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Bernard Nkrumah: Improving Service Quality Through Local Capacity Building: Looking Beyond PEPFAR
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Winny Koster: Barriers to Uptake of Laboratory Services for Antenatal Care. Findings from a Multilevel Qualitative Study in Senegal
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Ernest Ruttoh: Implementing a Laboratory Quality Management System: One Country’s Journey
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Andre Verani: Laboratory Workforce Mapping in 10 PEPFAR-Supported Countries: Major Gaps and Role for a Harmonized Intervention
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Kasirim Nwuke: Meeting Africa’s Health Challenge in the Context of the African Union’s
African Transformation Agenda: What Role Innovations and Health Technologies?
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Paul Tanui: Facilitating the Path for Regulation Harmonisation
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Tom Chiller: CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING A New Strategy for Saving Lives among People with HIV/AIDS
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Moussa Sacko: The Role of RDTs in Improving the Clinical Management of Patients Presenting with
Intestinal Disorders
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Pascal Lutumba: The Role of RDTs in Improving the Clinical Management of Patients
Presenting with Neurological Syndrome
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Gerhard Van Rooyen: Site Certification for HIV POCT – The Namibia Experience
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Jonathan Lehe: Current Strategies and Updates on Evaluation of New POCT for HIV and CD4 Testing
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Juliana Ndasi: Implementing the HIV Quality-Assured Cycle Using Innovative
Strategies: Cameroon Perspective
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Myriam Henkens: HIV Global Diagnostic Working Group
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Robert Matiru: Partnerships for Introducing New Diagnostics
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Dumisile Venessa Maseko: How the Laboratory Can Help Prevent the Emergence of Multidrug
Resistant Gonococci in Africa
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Frans Radebe: Microbiological Surveillance of STI Syndromes in South Africa,
2006-2014
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Coumba Toure Kane: HIV Acquired and Transmitted Drug Resistance in Senegal
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Moses Joloba: Surveillance of TB Drug Resistance: Lessons from Uganda
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Sheick Oumar Coulibaly: Overview of Malaria Resistance in the African Region
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Juliana Ndasi: The Use of Quality Corps Volunteers and Quality Assurance
of HIV Testing
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Wolfgang Preiser: Pooling of Dried Blood Spots for More Cost-Effective Means
of Viral Load Monitoring and Early Infant Diagnosis
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Ann Marie Nelson: Role of Autopsy Services in Quality Control of Diagnosis and Treatment
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Cheryl Cohen: Who is at Risk of Severe Influenza in Africa?
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Marta Nunes: Maternal Influenza Vaccination, An Update from Africa
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Cheryl Cohen: Influenza: The Role of a WHO Collaborating Centre within
Global Influenza Surveillance and Response and Provision of Candidate Vaccine Viruses
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Linda De Gouveia: Ensuring High Quality Testing for Vaccine-Preventable Bacterial
Diseases in AFRO LabNet
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Mick Mulders: Global Laboratory Networks for Vaccine-preventable Diseases
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Jason Williams: Geospatial Analysis: A CD4 Referral Network Optimization and Strategic POC Integration Model
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Rogers Kisame: Selection and Evaluation of a Third Rapid HIV Assay as a Tie Breaker to Enhance Early HIV Diagnosis and Linkage to Care in the Kingdom of Swaziland
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Sekesai Mtapuri-Zinyowera: Task Shifting Training for Point-of-Care Technologies: The SAMBA Experience in Zimbabwe
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Charles Kiyaga: Adherence to Early Infant HIV Diagnosis (EID) Testing Algorithm–Uganda’s Experience
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Emmanuel Fajardo: Rapid Plasma Separation Device for Point-of-Care Viral Load Testing: A Proof-of-Concept
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Lesley Scott: Performance of Xpert® HIV-1 Quant Compared to Roche CAP/CTM v2 and Abbott RealTime HIV-1 on a Prequalification Plasma Validation Panel
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Kyle Bond: Rapid ascent from zero quality to ISO accreditation in 18 months : A case study from Vietnam
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Talkmore Maruta: Progress Made in the Implementation of the Stepwise Laboratory Improvement Process
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Ndlovu Nqobile: High-level Advocacy to Build Support for Laboratory Accreditation
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Joseph Asamoah Frimpong: Genetic Diversity of Sporothrix Species Isolated From Clinical and Environmental Sources from an Outbreak among Gold Miners in Barberton, Mpumalanga
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Ali Elbireer: Ebola Epidemic: Laboratory Lessons Learned in Uganda – Are You Ready?
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Cynthia Semá Baltazar: Mozambique Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) – Strengthening Disease Detection through Laboratory Confirmation
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Angela Amayo: Use of Clinical Laboratory Data to Determine Disease Prevalence and Diagnostics Services Provided in Kenya
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Awa Ba Diallo: Supervision of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Senegal: a National Survey Conducted in 2006 and 2010 Respectively on 596 and 570 Female Sex Workers in Different STI Centres of Senegal
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Larry Westerman: Quality Assurance Monitoring of Pima CD4 Testing: Operator Errors Attributing to Higher Invalid Test Rates
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Bashir Farah: Inter-operator Comparison of the Elispot Assay Proficiency Testing in HIV-1 Clinical Trials in Kenya
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Seun Aladesanmi: Does Laboratory Participation in EQA Programs have an Impact on Laboratory Performance? Results of Two Years Evaluation of Laboratories Performances in the National Proficiency Testing Scheme, Nigeria
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Philip Boakye: Rapid Scale up of the Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) in Ghana
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Beth Skaggs: Review of Laboratory Information Management Systems in Mozambique: Quality Indicators
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Emmanuel Kweyu: Towards Providing an Affordable and Sustainable Laboratory Information System for Developing Countries: Successful Implementation of BLIS-Kenya Open Source Laboratory Information System In Public Health Hospital Laboratories In Kenya
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Mary Ann Sondrini: Biological Safety Cabinet Training for African Countries at Eagleson Institute USA
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Thomas L. Stevens: Development of a New Laboratory Safety Evaluation Tool to Build Robust Safety Programs and Achieve QMS Accreditation
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Maureen Ellis: Partnering with Biosafety Associations in Africa to Strengthen Laboratory Biosafety
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Teri Roberts: A Market Assessment of HIV Immunological and Virological Testing Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Kilian Songwe: SLMTA Return on Investment for Finance Managers
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Edwin Shumba: Weighing the Costs: Implementing the SLMTA Program in Zimbabwe
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Lee Schroeder: Laboratory Tests Use and Laboratory Test Costs in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comprehensive Survey of Clinical Laboratory Test Menus, Test Volumes, and Test Complexities in Kampala, Uganda
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Avelin Aghokeng: Virological and HIV Drug Resistance Outcomes of Antiretroviral
Therapy in Central and West Africa: Challenges to Improve Treatment Monitoring in Contexts of Generalised HIV Epidemic
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Irene Mukui: Experience of Kenya in Implementing HIVDR Monitoring
for the Clinical Management of Patients Failing Second-line ART
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Justen Manasa: SATuRN HIV Treatment Failure Clinic Model
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Fausta Mosha: Role of FELTP in building a public health laboratory network
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Patrick Nguku: What is Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) and how does it work for effective public health surveillance and response in Africa?
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Tura Galgalo: How FELTPs Combine Public Health Laboratory and Epidemiology
Skills to Solve Public Health Problems that Cross Animal and Human Health in Africa
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