ECHO Sessions Summaries: January to March 2025
Between January and March 2025, the Laboratory Systems Strengthening Community of Practice (LabCoP), in collaboration with ASLM and various partners, convened seven impactful ECHO
April 2025 LabCoP ECHO Session: Progress in foreign assistance space and current significant funding reduction Impact and potential mitigation strategies going forward
The recent US government stop work order has the potential to negate the gains in the global health space including HIV response towards achieving global targets for viral suppress
April 2025 LabCoP M&E ECHO Session: Improving results utilization towards UNAIDS 95-95-95 using Results Framework: The Uganda Experience
In this session the Ministry of Uganda, shares their experiences on how they have used HIV Action Plan Results Framework to track progress towards achieving the UNAIDS performance
WHO Standard: Universal Access to Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostics
Finding and diagnosing tuberculosis (TB), continues to be the most challenging aspect of the TB cascade of care. Each year, an estimated three million people with TB go undiagnosed
March 2025 LabCoP ECHO Session: Stool-based testing in the era of childhood TB diagnosis: current status and country experience
Following the WHO recommendation in 2022, stool-based testing has been introduced globally, with particular success in several African countries. In this session, presented by Mans
March 2025 LabCoP ECHO Session: Key concepts and the role of Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing for Identifying Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates
The emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB), in addition to other antimicrobial resistance presents a substantial challenge to global TB control
January 2025 LabCoP M&E SubCoP ECHO session: Improving programming and results utilization through innovative dashboards: The Tanzania experience
This LabCoP M&E SubCoP ECHO session focused on data for improved programming through innovative dashboards in Tanzania. Evidence-based implementation strategies are actions,
February 2025 LabCoP SubCoP DNO ECHO Session: The utilization of GIS Laboratory Mapping data in disease detection, surveillance and response: The Zambia and Burundi Experience
This LabCoP DNO SubCoP ECHO session shares the experiences and journey towards utilizing the LabMap data to support disease detection, surveillance and response. The 1998 WHO-AFRO
October 2024, LabCoP DNO SubCoP ECHO Session: Does it meet its’ promise?
This LabCoP DNO Sub-CoP ECHO extended panel discussion, co-hosted by ASLM and FIND, examine the impact and learnings from applications of Diagnostic Network Optimization (DNO) in i
September 2024 LabCoP DNO ECHO Session: GIS Laboratory Mapping programme in-country institutionalization, implementation and monitoring journey: Experiences from Mozambique and Zimbabwe
This LabCoP DNO Sub-CoP ECHO session, focuses on ‘Institutionalization, implementation and monitoring of GIS Laboratory mapping programme’. ASLM in collaboration with Africa CD