World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office

Session 2 Laboratory strengthening

Dr Cornelia Hennig

Stop TB and Leprosy Elimination

World Health Organization

Regional Office for the Western Pacific

Manila, Philippines

9-12 December 2014

The Ninth Technical Advisory Group and National TB Programme Managers

Meeting

Manila Philippines,9-11 December 2014

World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office

NRL/SRL:

Strengthening and coordinating technical assistance

World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office

TA requests from countries to SRL

• Increasingly complex and multi-focal: in-country– National Strategic Planning and NRL activity planning – DRS and surveillance– Xpert implementation – Training (safe working practices) – Lab assessments– Support for lab design/upgrade – QA microscopy, culture & DST– data management, – Participation in joint missions, rGLC– coordination

• Need also more remote (desk) work

World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office

Way forward• Countries:

– Encourage SRL to have at least one on-site visit including central/at least provincial level per year

– Secure funding for SRL (national and donors)

• SRL• Develop laboratory AND programmatic expertise to support NRL’s and for in-

country activities• Train next generation of consultants

• WHO/WPR– Establish skills set for each of the SRL’s in the region and update regularly– Co-ordinate TA requests that one SRL cannot cover

• GLI– Support training of next generation consultants , focus programmatic

expertise

World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office

NRL/SRL: Strengthening and coordinating technical

assistance

• Comments from SRL and NRL

• Discussion