The ASLM Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) Implementation Strategy 2025–2029 outlines ASLM’s coordinated, standardized, and sustainable approach to strengthening laboratory quality management across Africa and beyond. The strategy provides a comprehensive framework for harmonizing LQMS implementation across ASLM programs and supporting countries to institutionalize quality systems within national laboratory structures.
Responding to declining donor funding and the need for country ownership, the strategy shifts LQMS from project‑based interventions to nationally embedded systems supported by governance, policy, workforce development, and sustainable financing. It defines six strategic priority areas, including coordination of LQMS activities, standardization of implementation approaches, expansion of training and mentorship, institutionalization of LQMS at country level, resource mobilization, and advocacy.
Through this strategy, ASLM reinforces its role as a continental leader in laboratory quality improvement, supporting Member States to strengthen diagnostic reliability, progress toward national certification and ISO accreditation, and build resilient laboratory systems that underpin health security, universal health coverage, and quality patient care.
Primary Strategy