WCAF v2.0: Laboratory Waste Cost Assessment & Quantification Framework
The Waste Cost Assessment Framework (WCAF) v2.0 is a tool to support laboratories with a standardised format for forecasting waste disposal costs for infectious disease testing (eg HIV viral load (VL) and early infant diagnosis (EID), hepatitis C & B, HPV, Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19) to develop an estimated annual budget for proper waste management at the laboratory level. This tool was co-developed by US CDC and Roche Diagnostics under a public-private partnership for the waste generated by laboratories in PEPFAR-supported countries. It is supplier agnostic, making it useful to calculate volumes of solid and liquid waste across centralised and point of care platforms used in the country. Thanks to the country teams who supported the development and assessment of the tool: Ethiopia, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. For any questions around the use of the waste management tool please contact Monte D. Martin Email and David Bressler Email.
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