Orthopaedics Pathologies & Oncology
S. Kamat, Mr. Akhil Kapoor, Mr. Vilas Sadekar
2.50 Hours
Deep dive into orthopaedic disorders & injuries. Explore the role of oncology in bone & soft tissue tumors.
The Theory of Implicit Bias and Strategies to Remedy Implicit Bias
Broc Pollinger
0.75 Hours
This CE activity will define implicit bias and provide the learner with an understanding of how implicit bias negatively impacts access to care, treatment, and patient outcomes. In addition, strategies to remedy the negative impact of implicit bias and reduce disparities in healthcare access and delivery also will be discussed.....
Fellows' Experience with Micro and Macro Initiation
Gloria J. Baciewic and Timothy J. Wiegand
1.25 Hours
A Deep Dive into Complex Addiction Cases with Leading Experts! The ACMT Addiction Toxicology Case Conference webinar series discusses Addiction/Toxicology cases in an interactive fashion featuring experts from Addiction Medicine, Addiction Psychiatry, and Medical Toxicology. Case 1: Low Dose Initiation Case 2: 'Macro Indu....
Contraception and Family Planning: How Does Each Method Work to Prevent Pregnancy?
Mark Hathaway, Erica Chin, Jacqueline Willie, Alice Muraguri
This course contains information on female anatomy, menstruation, ovulation, and fertilization. As a provider of family planning and contraception counselling and services, this course will equip you to guide postpartum women’s choices in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), reproductive empowerment, and bodily auto....
Managing Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice eLearning
Jeshni Amblum-Almer and Gill Dunn
3.00 Hours
The course provides essential knowledge and skills for all healthcare professionals in primary care, enabling effective management of diabetic patients using an evidence-informed and patient-centered approach. The course aims to equip healthcare professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage diabetic patients....
Module 1: Overview and Introduction
Tania Farha and Riet Groenen, Upala Devi and Luis Mora, Claudia Garcia Moreno and Avni Amin, Suki Beavers, Niki Palmer and Charles Chauvel, Claudia Baroni and Sven Pfeiffer
Module 1 offers an introduction to the Package, as well as foundational elements and information on how to use this tool.
Handling Large Molecular Waste Containing Guanidine Thiocyanate: Pilot in Uganda & Nigeria
Mr Joel Peter Opio and Dr Ughweroghene Kingston Omo-Emmanuel
LabCoP’s Waste Management Sub CoP ECHO session, held on 18 July 2024, focused on Handling Large Volume Molecular Liquid Waste Containing Guanidine Thiocyanate and pilot studies from Nigeria and Uganda. Given the scale up of viral load (VL) testing and early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV globally over the last decade, there has b....
GIS Platforms for AMR, One Health, and Pandemic Preparedness
Stephen Obol Opiyo
In this Antimicrobial Resistance Community of Practice (AMR CoP) webinar, we review the highlights of a groundbreaking study aimed at enhancing global antimicrobial resistance research capabilities, using interactive geographic information system (GIS) dashboards developed to enable comprehensive data analysis of AMR across mult....
Early Adoption of WHO Standard for Universal Rapid TB Diagnostics
Mr David Asiimwe and Dr Omoniyi Amos
On 9 May 2024, ASLM’s LabCoP convened an Extended ECHO session on implementation experiences from early adopters of the World Health Organization Standard on Universal Access to Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostics, released by WHO in 2023. The standard comprises 12 benchmarks in four steps of the diagnostic cascade, including: identi....
Cartridge Waste Management in VL Testing: The Mouse in the Room
Edward Krisiunas and Rumbidzai Ndungwani
ASLM’s LabCoP, in conjunction with Cepheid, convened a Waste Management Sub-CoP ECHO session focusing on GeneXpert cartridge waste management at viral load (VL) testing laboratories. GeneXpert is one of the test devices widely used in multi-disease testing, with substantial placement in most laboratory networks in Africa. The su....
Lab Mapping journey and final data use: Experience from Malawi and Zimbabwe
Thresa Sumani, and Vincent Kampira
On 13 June, ASLM’s LabCoP hosted an Extended ECHO session about Malawi and Zimbabwe experiences with lab mapping and final data use. ASLM, Africa CDC and partners have been supporting countries in a phased manner to map existing laboratory capacity on the continent. This initiative aims at collecting laboratory data linked to ge....
The Cardiovascular System and Sites for Drug Effects
Amy Howard
This session describes the basic anatomy of the cardiovascular system, as well as drugs that primarily affect it and their sites of action.
Opioids with Weak and Partial Agonist Activity and Opioid Antagonists
Kimberley Hoyland
This session describes the pharmacology and uses of weak opioids such as codeine, as well as partial agonist and mixed agonist/antagonist drugs, and lists the problems associated with their use. It also examines the pharmacology and use of μ receptor antagonists.
Introduction to Pharmacokinetics and Modelling
Sue Hill
This session will introduce pharmacokinetics and modelling. The simple one-compartment model will be described and reasons presented as to why such a model rarely describes drug behaviour.
Mechanism of General Anaesthetic Action
Shelley Barnes, Jeffrey Handel, and Madeleine Storey
This session describes the ways in which general anaesthetic agents are hypothesized to exert their effects at the cellular and molecular level.
Strengthening the One Health Approach to AMR Surveillance
Dr Cheikh Fall
In this Antimicrobial (AMR) Community of Practice (CoP) webinar, we discuss the One Health approach to addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This approach provides significant opportunities to explore broadly-existing microbial relationships between humans and animals. In this session, from the genomic point of view, the In....
Strengthening the Quality of AMR Diagnostics
Professor Olga Perovic
In this Antimicrobial (AMR) Community of Practice (CoP) webinar, we discuss our approach to establishing regional external quality assessment (EQA) providers and the achievements and lessons learnt from the implementation of a regional EQA programme for AMR. This AMR CoP and webinar are supported by the Fleming Fund’s EQA Grant....
Introducing the HIV Laboratory Waste Cost Assessment Framework
Ritu Shrivastava
LabCoP’s February ECHO session introduced the HIV Laboratory Waste Cost Assessment Framework (WCAF), an MS Excel-based tool co-developed by the US CDC and Roche Diagnostics, under a public-private partnership to support accurate quantification of solid and liquid wastes generated in PEPFAR-supported countries, to allow easy comm....
Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Africa
Dr Sofonias K Tessema
On 10 Feb 2022, ASLM held this ECHO session to cover genomic surveillance for SARS-COV-2 in Africa by Africa CDC’s Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI). This initiative, a continental program launched in October 2020, aims to establish pathogen genomics and bioinformatics capacity in support of disease surveillance.....
The Global Access Diagnostics COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Test, COVIOS
Mark Radford and Dr Emily Adams
On 2 September 2021, this COVID-19 ECHO session was convened to share details on the COVIOS antigen rapid diagnostic test (Ag RDT) technology, status of regulatory approval, requirements/consumables to operate the test, and how Ag RDTs can be deployed to support testing programmes for COVID-19 epidemic control. COVIOS, developed....
Implementation of the Lateral-Flow Urine Lipoarbinomannan Assay
Martina Casenghi, Nathan Ford and Morten Ruhwald
On 30 June 2021 this Extended ECHO session was convened to discuss the implementation of the Lateral-Flow Urine Lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) assay for the detection of active tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV. The session provided an overview of current World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations, practical consider....
LabCoP M&E Sub-CoP ECHO Session June 2021
Hiwot Haile-Selassie and Faith Ngari
In June the ASLM LabCoP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Sub-CoP held an ECHO session on viral load (VL) testing data quality assessment. The presentation provided an overview of the 2020 WHO-UNAIDS-PEPFAR-Global Fund module for assessing and strengthening the quality of VL testing data within HIV programmes and patient monitorin....
LabCoP M&E Sub-CoP ECHO Session Early April 2021
Nadia Solehdin, and Jonathan Ntale
On 1 April 2021, ASLM`s LabCoP M&E Sub-CoP, in collaboration with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT) convened a session focusing on indicators for scale-up of viral load (VL) testing and program outcomes. Presentations were made by Nadia Solehdin, an epidemiologi....
Respectful Maternity Care
Dr Sarah Little
This module provides training and mentorship instruction for conducting Respectful maternity care.
Antepartum Haemorrhage (APH)
Dr Sarah Little
This module provides training and mentorship instruction for management of Antepartum hemorrhage.