April 9 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Task sharing for point-of-care testing with lay cadres: opportunities for scale up
Task sharing involves the rational redistribution of tasks among health workforce teams with Specific tasks moved, from highly qualified health workers to health workers with short
April 16 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Pooled sputum testing for molecular TB diagnosis – Lessons from the Start4All multi-country experience
Each year, over 2 million people with TB go undiagnosed or are diagnosed late because access to rapid molecular testing remains limited, particularly in decentralised and resource-
March 24 2026 LabCoP WM SubCoP ECHO Session: Tools for change: Quantifying and understanding diagnostic plastic waste
March 24 2026 Between 25%-36% of biomedical and general healthcare waste is made of plastic and this translates to a global projection of about 15 million tons of plastic waste gen
March 19 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Critical Pathway Analysis for New TB Diagnostic Tools in Africa: Insights from 4 Countries & Continental Regulatory Stakeholders
Thursday, 19 March 2026 Over a decade since the WHO recommended replacement of smear microscopy with rapid molecular diagnostics, only half of people with TB have access to these t
March 12 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: The External Quality Assurance Dashboard of the Global Laboratory Initiative
Thursday, 12 March 2026 Ensuring quality of TB testing is a central pillar of the End TB Strategy. However, the roll-out of external quality assurance programs (EQA) frequently lag
March 05 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Advanced HIV Disease
The WHO defines advanced HIV disease (AHD) as a CD4 count <200 cells/mm³ or WHO stage 3/4. CD4 testing is crucial for identifying AHD, despite not being needed for treatment in
February 19 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: The launch of second version of the Waste Cost Assessment Framework (WCAF) tool
Thursday, 19 Feb 2026 Effective waste management involves safe procedures for minimizing, segregating, collecting, storing, transporting, treating, and disposing waste. All waste p
February 12 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Community-Led Monitoring in Action
Thursday, 12th February 2026 Community-led monitoring is a participatory approach that empowers communities to systematically collect and analyze data to improve health services an
June 2025 LabCoP ECHO Session: Preserving Laboratory Medicine Success in Africa: what leaders need to do to alleviate the devastating sector wide effects of funding uncertainties: immediate actions.
Tuesday, 17th June 2025 Funding cuts to global health initiatives have far-reaching implications. If not successfully mitigated, the freeze threatens to disrupt essential health se
May 15 2025 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: National Multi-pathogen Diagnostic Program Supporting Patient-Centered Care Through Strengthening Microbiology and Molecular Techniques in Zambia
Thursday, 15th May 2025 The African region continue to bear the burden of communicable diseases including those emanating from epidemic prone pathogens. This burden is exacerbated