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• e-Learning

  Safety Familiarisation Course for African Healthcare Clinicians

  

  This course provides key information on safe practices, infection control, personal protective equipment, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, and ways to manage and dispose of health care waste properly.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on June 12, 2019   Posted on June 12, 2019

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• Publication

  Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Achieving UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 HIV Treatment Targets in Africa

  

  This review article identifies the benefits, enabling factors, and associated challenges for public and private sectors to engage in public-private partnerships. These partnership contributions to laboratory systems strengthening are a model, and present opportunities that can be leveraged to strengthen systems to accelerate the scale up of Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis to achieve the UNAIDS 90–90-90 treatment targets for HIV/AIDS.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on June 12, 2019   Posted on June 12, 2019

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• Other

  HIV Point-of-Care (Nucleic Acid Testing) Landscape in Africa

  

  Strategic deployment of POC EID is key to getting more infants tested for HIV and initiated on treatment in a timely manner. This map indicates the distribution by type and numbers of POC Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) for HIV, EID and VL technologies ( Alere, Samba, GeneXpert, etc. ) being used by some countries in Africa.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on May 19, 2025   Posted on June 10, 2019

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• Guidelines Report

  The Missed Potential of CD4 and VL Testing

  

  This insightful paper was published in Plos about the missed potential of CD4 and viral load testing to improve clinical outcomes for people living with HIV in lower-resource settings.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on June 10, 2019   Posted on June 10, 2019

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• e-Learning Video

  2019 Waste Management Training Session 3: Tool for Waste Management Considerations for VL and EID Testing Laboratories and Associated Healthcare Facilities

  

  In collaboration with ASLM and the LabCoP community, the CDC International Laboratory Branch (ILB) presented the 3rd of 6 ECHO sessions dedicated to waste management. In this session, a draft of a viral load waste management checklist tool that can be used as baseline audit of select country VL labs was introduced. The tool aims to assist in creating awareness of best practices and identifying gaps for waste management processes in HIV molecular testing laboratories and associated healthcare facilities.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on May 19, 2025   Posted on May 22, 2019

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• e-Learning Guidelines Publication Report Video

  2019 Waste Management Training Session 2: The WHO Blue Book: Safe Management of Wastes from Health-Care Activities

  

  In collaboration with ASLM and the LabCoP community, the CDC International Laboratory Branch (ILB) presented an overview of the World Health Organization (WHO) Publication: ‘Safe Management of Wastes from Health-Care Activities’ during the 2nd of 6 ECHO sessions dedicated to waste management. This document, developed by WHO in 2017, highlights the key aspects of safe healthcare waste management in order to guide policymakers, practitioners and facility managers to improve such services in healthcare facilities.

   Author(s) TBD   Originally published on May 8, 2019   Posted on May 8, 2019

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