world health organization, western pacific regional office session 2 laboratory strengthening dr...
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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