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UNAIDS and ASLM
Formalise Partnership to
Improve Laboratories and
Access to HIV Testing
in Africa

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Pan African
Harmonization
Working Party
(PAHWP)

PAHWP Convenes 1st African Regulatory Forum
on Medical Devices and Diagnostics

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Save the Dates
30 November
thru
4 December 2014

Find out more information about the 2nd international conference
of ASLM, click here to visit ASLM2014.org

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WHO Releases 2013 Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report

Cites Annual Drop in TB Deaths;
Notes that Undiagnosed Cases and Drug Resistance Threaten Progress

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World Health Organization
releases Guide for the
Stepwise Laboratory
Improvement Process
Towards Accreditation
(SLIPTA) in Africa

HIV Viral Load Report Released

African partners gathered in April to develop strategies and recommendations necessary to expand and strengthen HIV viral load testing capacity throughout the continent. The scientific committee has officially released the meeting recommendations.

Lab Culture newsletter, Issue 8

Issue 8 features the original article "Are We Prepared for the Next Outbreak?" as well as important ASLM programme updates on GeneXpert implementation (tuberculosis), SLIPTA, SLMTA and the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine.

Featured Article in AJLM

Original content from the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine: Aetiology and factors associated with bacterial diarrhoeal diseases amongst urban refugee children in Eastleigh, Kenya: A case control study.

ASLM2020 Strategic Vision

ASLM aims to improve healthcare in Africa by strengthening laboratory workforce development, emphasising laboratory accreditation efforts, improving regulatory environments and strengthening national laboratory networks.

ASLM Resource Library

Open-access content available for free download to strengthen and serve the African laboratory community.

Featured ASLM Supporter

A U.S. Government initiative to help save the lives of those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world, PEPFAR reflects the commitment to the shared responsibility among donor and partner nations and others to make smart investments to save lives.