June 05 2026 AMR CoP ECHO session: Pre-Analytical Phase in Clinical Bacteriology: Specimen Quality, Workflow and Error Prevention
The accuracy of every microbiology result depends on what happens before the specimen reaches the laboratory. In this session, Dr. Edwin Kamau — Senior Director of Medical and Sc
May 28 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Moving from a Pilot project and siloed interventions to a system-based approach for improved health: A Global Call
Integrated diagnostics is an essential strategy for delivering cost-effective, people-centered health services. Tuberculosis services present an entry point for integration through
April 30 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: A new multi-disease QMS toolkit — simplified, practical, and built for real-world testing sites
As countries decentralize testing and use trained lay providers difficulty in applying the current tools in non-lab settings. To support this, WHO in collaboration with external ex
April 23 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Opportunities for Patient-Centric Sampling in African Diagnostics
Traditional healthcare is often delivered through rigid pathways where patients travel to a lab or hospital, trained staff collect a sample, and patients wait or return days later
April 14 2026 LabCoP WM SubCoP ECHO Session: Framework for the Selection, Implementation, and Financing of Laboratory Waste Management: the current state and the critical necessity for effective waste management
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 guidan
April 21 2026 LabCoP Extended ECHO Session: Introducing the Laboratory System Maturity Monitoring (LMM) tool and sharing practical information for countries planning an LMM evaluation.
The Laboratory System Maturity Monitoring (LMM) is a tool jointly owned by Africa CDC and WHO AFRO. It provides a standardized measurement of laboratory system maturity through a v
March 27 2026 AMR CoP ECHO session: unlocking smarter antimicrobial decisions
In this session, we explore how Procalcitonin — a key diagnostic biomarker — can be harnessed as a precision tool to guide antibiotic initiation, duration, and de-escalation, u
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-