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News ArticlesWhat’s New: January to August 2023

What’s New: January to August 2023

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LabNetLead

ASLM, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, FIND, and other partners have developed the Laboratory Network Leadership (LabNetLead) course to introduce concepts and activities essential to adequately design, optimise, lead and manage functional, high-quality laboratory networks. The course focuses on human health laboratory network management and is designed to complement the WHO Global Laboratory Leadership Program in Africa. Learn more about LabNetLead on LabCoP’s website.

LabCoP Cookbook of Best Practices

The latest recipe in the LabCoP Cookbook of Best Practices, ‘Management of Guanidinium Thiocyanate Containing Waste from Testing Laboratories’ is available on LabCoP’s website. The recipe summarises best practices and solutions proven to work for managing guanidinium thiocyanate waste in low- and middle-income countries of Africa. The recipe is particularly important for any programme conducting molecular testing, such as HIV testing programmes. However, many of the best practices are also applicable to broader laboratory waste.

Looking Ahead

ASLM2023

Save the date for ASLM’s biennial conference as it returns to Cape Town, South Africa, 12-15 December 2023. ASLM2023 offers the opportunity to hear from world-renowned experts on infectious disease control and public health from Africa and across the globe. Learn more and register at www.aslm2023.org.

LabCoP Meeting

This year’s LabCoP meeting will be held in December at ASLM2023 in Cape Town, South Africa, as a hybrid session, with select representatives from each country team in attendance. All team members will be able to participate virtually via Zoom. LabCoP will facilitate two-day, in-country workshops for assessments and work plan development in preparation for the December meeting. Please await additional information in the coming months.

Decentralising Tuberculosis Testing Recipe

The LabCoP Management Team is preparing a new recipe for inclusion in the Cookbook of Best Practices about Decentrailsing Tuberculosis Testing. Look out for this critical recipe in November 2023.