What’s New

New Recipe in LabCoP’s Cookbook of Best Practices

LabCoP has published the latest recipe in the Cookbook of Best Practices: Electronic Return of Test Results, featuring key considerations for countries considering the implementation of electronic systems to improve the return of results in their settings and best practices based on experiences where the electronic return of results has been implemented in Africa. Download the Electronic Return and Notification of Test Results recipe here. Check out the other recipes in the cookbook. Each recipe is a collection of key considerations and best practices resulting from the south-to-south information sharing of LabCoP country teams. All are freely available from the LabCoP website. 

Welcoming the Ghana LabCoP Team

The LabCoP Management Team is pleased to announce that Ghana has joined the LabCoP family! Led by Dr. Ebenezer Ayiku, Managing Director of Ghana Health Service, the team will perform their first self-assessment in the coming weeks. Please join us in welcoming Ghana to the LabCoP family.

New LabCoP Country Dashboard

The LabCoP Management Team has developed country-specific dashboards for country teams to utilize for monitoring, measuring and analysing relevant data in key areas of laboratory system strengthening. The dashboard consolidates the various assessments conducted over time and enables better work plan development, planning and easier navigation. The dashboards are now operational and accessible to country teams, who have undergone onboarding, and ongoing support is being provided to facilitate the effective use of the dashboards.

Looking Ahead 

2024 Annual LabCoP Meeting

Preparations for the highly-anticipated annual LabCoP meeting are well under way. This year, the meeting will convene on 4 November in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire as the pre-convention event at ASLM’s Special Diagnostic Convention. This will be LabCoP’s seventh annual meeting and is shaping up to be one of the best yet. Expect an exciting meeting full of presentations and breakouts about innovations and progress in laboratory systems strengthening. Stay tuned for more updates!

Upcoming ECHO sessions

LabCoP has launched a series of special ECHO sessions covering the mpox outbreak. The second session of the series will be held in the coming weeks. In the coming months, LabCoP will also host ECHO sessions in collaboration with USAID, Chemonics and other partners that address supply chain management and equipment maintenance gaps. Additional sessions will cover diagnostic network optimization and feature a panel discussion with representative from Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria’s ministries of health. Check out the full archive of past LabCoP ECHO Sessions here.