LabCop ECHO SEssion Summary July–Sept 2025
During the 3rd quarter of 2025, the Laboratory Systems Strengthening Community of Practice (LabCoP), with support from the Gates Foundation and partner organizations, convened seve
Stakeholders meeting on LabMap capacity gap analysis on laboratory-based disease surveillance and review of the data collection tool
From 8-12th September 2025, Africa CDC and ASLM partnered with seven Member States to conduct a laboratory capacity gap analysis using LabMap data in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ana
Publication of the newly developed framework for GIS-mapping of laboratory systems and network capacities in Africa
In October 2025, Africa CDC submitted the newly developed framework for GIS mapping of laboratory systems and network capacities across Africa for publication. Developed in collabo
Minimum Package for Sustainable Laboratory Systems
A Framework for Prioritizing Laboratory Systems Strengthening in the context of Reduced External Funding Diagnostics play a central role in ensuring quality health care and are fun
What’s New – Guidance for prioritization of laboratory systems and services
ASLM is developing a minimum package of laboratory care framework that provides a structured and evidence-based approach to prioritize and sustain critical diagnostic services in t
Estimating the demand for tuberculosis diagnostics closer to the point of care
Despite being declared a global emergency in 1993, tuberculosis (TB) still claims the lives of over 1 million people each year. Additionally, approximately 2 million people who hav
LabCoP CONNECT Volume 8, Issue 1
The latest edition of LabCoP Connect is hot off the press! This issue features an in-depth look at Ghana joining ASLM’s LabCoP as its 24th member country, an article on Closing t
What’s New
Call for Papers: Advancing Sustainable Solutions in Microfluidics and Point-of-Care Diagnostics The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) invites researchers, scientists,
Expert Experience
ASLM recently sat down with Agnes Juru Chibango, Coordinator of the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory in Zimbabwe, to uncover how Zimbabwe is leveraging South-to-South lea
Closing the Gaps: The Status of WHO TB Standards in LabCoP Countries
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a persistent global health challenge, but the World Health Organization’s (WHO) newly released cascade offers a transformative roadmap for identifying g