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Laboratory Quality Strengthening

Uganda national health laboratory services policy

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Ministry of health
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, health policy, uganda
This policy aims to provide a framework for ensuring that the health laboratory services in Uganda are strengthened so as to adequately support the effective and efficient delivery of the Uganda National Minimum Health Care Package to all people in Uganda, as advocated by the National Health Policy.

Manual of standard operating procedures (SOPs) : culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug susceptibility testing on solid medium

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Ministry of health and family welfare. Directorate general of health services. Central TB division
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, disease control, tuberculosis, standards
This SOPs document was specially compiled for the needs of the Revised National TB Control Programme Laboratory Network in India and is intended for the use of Intermediate Reference Laboratories. The SOPs are generic to some extent, microbiologists are encouraged to adapt them to their needs.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis : assessing your laboratory

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Association of public health laboratories (APHL)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, disease control, tuberculosis
This resource, developed by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was designed to assist US laboratories in the assessment of the quality of their laboratory’s TB diagnostic practices.

International standards for tuberculosis care [(ISTC)] : diagnosis, treatment, public health

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Tuberculosis coalition for technical assistance (TBCTA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, disease control, tuberculosis, standards
The purpose of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care is to describe a widely accepted level of care that all practitioners, public and private, should seek to achieve in managing patients who have, or are suspected of having, tuberculosis.

Laboratory accreditation checklist for clinical and public health laboratories

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Regional office for Africa (AFRO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, standards
This checklist specifies requirements for quality and competency aimed to develop and improve laboratory services to raise quality to uniform national standards using a tiered WHO AFRO Accreditation scheme.
 

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This portal provides background information for KIT's training programme on laboratory quality management, which enables laboratories in resource-constrained countries to improve the quality of their services. Use the searchbox to find resources in the database.