The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Waste Not Want Not (WNWN) have jointly developed comprehensive guidance to address urgent challenges in laboratory waste management across Africa.
As diagnostic technologies and lab services rapidly expand — including HIV viral load and early infant diagnosis platforms — safe waste management has become critical to protect health workers, communities, and the environment.
In this session, that featured speakers including Anafi Mataka, Head of Division, ASLM; Collins Otieno, Portfolio Lead, ASLM; Edward Krisiunas, President, WNWN International; and Viktor Hristov, Senior Healthcare Waste Management Consultant, WNWN International, we share practical recommendations for selecting and implementing waste treatment technologies tailored to African settings. Further we share results from a situational analysis of current gaps in infrastructure, policy, technical capacity, and financing and delve in to the framework for action to help countries strengthen national laboratory waste management systems. This resource is designed to support ministries of health, laboratory directors, and implementing partners in building safe, sustainable practices that keep pace with diagnostic scale-up.
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