Laboratory Quality Strengthening

Guidebook for implementation of laboratory information systems in resource-poor settings : President’s emergency plan for AIDS relief

| 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Association of public health laboratories (APHL)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, information systems, disease control, aids
This guidebook aims to provide a set of clearly defined steps to implement laboratory information systems (LIS) in laboratories in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on laboratories supporting HIV/AIDS testing, surveillance, prevention, and care and treatment.

Strengthening laboratories in Uganda

| 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Management sciences for health (MSH). News bureau
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, management, capacity building, uganda
This is a short article about the Laboratory Performance Improvement Program in Uganda, a program of Management Sciences for Health.

Laboratory biosafety manual

| 2004
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities
This manual provides practical guidance on biosafety techniques for use in laboratories at all levels. For this new edition, the manual has been extensively revised and expanded. Also material on safety in health-care laboratories, previously published elsewhere by WHO, has been incorporated.

Accreditation of health laboratories in the countries of the SEA region : report of a regional consultation, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-10 October 2003

| 2004
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Regional office for South-East Asia
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, quality control, standards, south east asia
This is a report of the Regional Consultation which the WHO organized in Bangkok, Thailand from 6 -10 October 2003 to orient national focal points in all the countries to the concept and process of accreditation in the South-East Asia Region.

Laboratory accreditation in developing economies : tested once - accepted everywhere

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations industrial development organization (UNIDO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: scientific facilities, quality control, standardization, standards, developing countries
This publication addresses the issue of accreditation for testing and calibration laboratories with special emphasis on the developing economies. It provides references to the appropriate documentation that is available from international and regional standards organizations.
 

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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.