QUALITY OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SERVICES IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS

Authors

  • Bernardo Elias Correa Soares Department of Health Sanitation Division of Biosafety National School of Public Health Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Keywords:

laboratory diagnosis, epidemiology, AIDS

Abstract

This report endorses the author’s own views on the subject after taking up a laboratory adviser mission in Africa. Taking the example of laboratory services practice in sub-Saharan countries, it is shown that diagnosis of diseases which require the use of laboratory suffer from lapses in the quality of case-detection and case-reporting. These services lack management and an information system that limits the set up of a laboratory network at national level. An efficient health program set in resource deprived countries would then yield improvements on systems and infrastructure.

Author Biography

Bernardo Elias Correa Soares, Department of Health Sanitation Division of Biosafety National School of Public Health Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Department of Health Sanitation Division of Biosafety Senior Technologist

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Published

2011-08-24

How to Cite

Soares, B. E. C. (2011). QUALITY OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SERVICES IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS. African Journal of Infectious Diseases (AJID), 6(1), 10–11. Retrieved from https://journals.athmsi.org/index.php/AJID/article/view/1344

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Case Report

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