Module 9: Lipid Disease in Diabetes
Dr Trust Zaranyika, Dr Nickson Mukapa and Dr Moris Chiwanza
By the end of this module, participants will have an understanding of lipid disease in diabetes. Ability to diagnose and manage disorders of lipid metabolism.
Module 2: Delivering Diabetes Care at Various Levels of Care
Dr Trust Zaranyika, Dr Nickson Mukapa and Dr Moris Chiwanza
By the end of this module, participants will have a thorough understanding of delivering diabetes care at various levels of care. The module will cover the principles and practicalities of glucose monitoring, focusing on therapeutic targets individualized based on patient conditions, lifestyle, and overall health.
Module 8: Complications and Diabetes
Dr Trust Zaranyika, Dr Nickson Mukapa and Dr Moris Chiwanza
By the end of this module, participants will have an understanding of managing, complications of Diabetes.
Integrating TB and HIV Testing on GeneXpert to Improve Access and Same-day Diagnosis
Powel Choonga and Trevor Machila
This LabCoP Diagnostic Network Optimisation (DNO) Sub-CoP ECHO session in co-convened with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), focuses on providing an overview of the DNO analysis in Zambia for TB/HIV testing integration, including objectives, methodology and key findings. It further explores how findings from....
GLI Planning and Budgeting Tool & Stop TB Partnership GDF Catalogue
Dr Carl-Michael Nathanson and Brian Kaiser
The March 2023 LabCoP ECHO session organised by ASLM and the Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) focused on the GLI Planning and Budgeting Tool for tuberculosis and drug resistant TB testing, and the Stop TB Partnership Global Drug Facility (GDF) diagnostics product catalogue. These planning and budgeting tools are semi-automated....
Detection and Surveillance of Chemical Hazard
Lydia Izon
LabCoP’s Waste Management session, held on 6 July 2023, in collaboration with Africa CDC and the UK Health Security Agency, focused on detection and surveillance of chemical hazards. This is the second of two sessions dedicated to chemical waste management. Lydia Izon, the Principal Public Health Scientist with the Chemicals and....
Outcome-Driven Lab Networks - Eswatini’s Experience Using Key Performance Indicators to Drive Laboratory Performance
Sindisiwe Dlamini
The June 2023 LabCoP ECHO session focused on using key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive laboratory network performance management. Just like any product or service industry, effective, efficient and reliable national laboratory network management relies on a deliberate and structured efforts to continuously look for critic....
The Evolving Role of Diagnostics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Rosanna W. Peeling
On 9 September 2021, this COVID-19 ECHO session was convened to discuss the evolving role of diagnostics in the COVID-19 pandemic response. Testing, when used effectively, is one critical tool that supports control of any disease outbreak including the COVID-19 pandemic. Swift case identification and contact tracing inevitably p....
The Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism
The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM)
On 12 May 2021, this Extended ECHO session was convened to discuss the Global Fund COVID-19 funding mechanism, an opportunity for countries to request funds to strengthen their health systems in response while mitigating the effects of COVID-19 on other essential health services including HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. An i....
LabCoP M&E Sub-CoP ECHO Session May 2021
Yonatan Gossaye Dessalegn, Kalechristos Abebe and Geleta Abate Fulas
In May 2021 the ASLM LabCoP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Sub-CoP held a session on data management, dashboards and connectivity solutions for HIV viral load (VL) and early infant diagnosis (EID). Presentations were made by Yonatan Gossaye Dessalegn, Senior Associate Software Developer on Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI....
LabCoP M&E Sub-CoP ECHO Session Late April 2021
Miriam Bukenya and Dr Zziwa Martinluther
On 22 April 2021 ASLM’s LabCoP M&E Sub-community of practice held a south-to-south learning session during which the Uganda country team shared their experience in rolling out monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for viral load (VL) including virtual dashboards that allow for performance tracking at various administrative lev....
African Experience on Expanding COVID-19 Testing
Renuka Gadde, Professor Wendy Stevens, Dr Leon Mutesa, and Dr Anthony Ahumibe
On 2 March 2021 this COVID-19 ECHO session was convened to discuss the African experience in expanding COVID-19 testing using Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests (Ag RDT). It has been over one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO. There is still much concern that COVID-19 infections are increasing in some countries afte....
PEPFAR Country Operational Plan 2021
Dr George Alemnji
LabCoP’s January 2021 ECHO session covered PEPFAR’s Country Operational Plan 2021 and the laboratory systems strengthening priorities of the year. Dr George Alemnji, Senior Technical Advisor for PEPFAR Laboratory Services (OGAC), Washington DC, presented during the session.
Management of Normal Labour
Dr Sarah Little
This module provides training and mentorship instruction for management of normal labor.
Frontline Leadership Certificate Program
Paige Down, MSN; Sarah E. Gray, DNP, RN, CEN, FAEN; Allison McCarty, RN; Amy Costanzo, PhD, RN, RN-BC; Ashley Singh, PhD, DNP, RN, EBP-C, CEC, BCC; Cheri Clancy, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CPXP; Crissy Lough, DNP, MHA, RN; Dennis Doherty, PhD, RN, NPD-BC; Kelsie Sc
5.25 Hours
The "Frontline Leadership Certificate Program" is designed for emerging and current nurse leaders aiming to enhance their leadership skills in healthcare settings. Participants will gain tools and techniques to empower their teams, improve patient care, and facilitate a healthy work environment. This program equips charge nurses....
Great Vessels, Main Peripheral Arteries and Veins
Kirti Mukherjee
This session describes the four sets of great vessels originating or terminating in the heart, along with their major branches and tributaries in the thorax, abdomen and limbs.
Organ Trauma: Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Ruichong Ma
This session provides an overview of the presentation and assessment of peripheral nerve injuries. There is a focus on the clinical anatomy and function of these commonly injured peripheral nerves.
Organ Trauma: Vascular Extrinsic Trauma
Morgan P. McMonagle
This session describes the types of peripheral vascular injuries that may be encountered, the hard signs of vascular injury and the best approach for management.
Shock: Massive Transfusion
Vimal S Hariharan
This session is about the factors regarding massive blood transfusion in the surgical setting.
Techniques: Ultrasound of the Urinary Tract
Grant Baxter
This session describes the ultrasound investigation of the kidneys, renal arteries and the bladder.
CKD - Hypertension in CKD
Peter Topham
This session will explain how to evaluate and manage patients with hypertension associated with chronic kidney disease.
Assessing development stage
Deborah Christie
This session will help you review both personal and accepted definitions of adolescence. It will discuss the physical, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioural changes that take place during this developmental stage. A four stage assessment tool will be described that can be used to determine where a young person is in relat....
Interpreting Laboratory Tests
Jim Gray
This session explains what is meant by sensitivity and specificity of tests and how these translate into measures of positive predictive value and negative predictive value. The difference between diagnostic testing and screening for disease is discussed with appropriate examples.
Diagnosing HIV
Erasmus Smit, Elizabeth Dale, Hugh Adler, and Dr Anu Chawla
This session explains how HIV should be diagnosed, what samples should be taken, and how they should be stored and transported. It explains what diagnostic tests are available, how to interpret them, their sensitivity and specificity, and their potential advantages or disadvantages. The timescale between HIV exposure and tests b....
Biological Responses of Laser
Emily Fletcher
This session describes the laser-tissue interface allowing selection of the appropriate laser for different clinical conditions. It also includes the effect of laser settings on retinal laser burns.