Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation: The Rwandan Debut
For the past two years, ASCP has been working closely with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention to develop a laboratory accreditation scheme for laboratories in developing countries. The program, called Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA), was launched in July 2009 at a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda. Since the launch meeting, ASCP consultants and staff, along with CDC, have worked tirelessly to prepare for SLMTA implementation in Africa. more...
Laboratory Professors Brush Up on Teaching Skills in Cote d’Ivoire
In December 2009, ASCP staff Roland Guidry, Technical Manager, and Alisa
Tank, Project Assistant, traveled to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire with three ASCP consultants to conduct a Teaching Methodologies Workshop. The workshop took place at INFAS, the national training school for health care and laboratory professionals, and comprised 25 individuals working at INFAS, RETRO-CI, the Pasteur Institute, and the University of Cocody. more...
ASCP Consultant Improves Patient Care in Africa One Trip at a Time
ASCP member, Wendy Arneson, MSA, MT(ASCP), has served as a consultant for the ASCP Institute for Global Outreach since 2005. Her extensive work has impacted seven countries in African and South America. She recently embarked on a six week technical assistance with work with universities in Tanzania. more...
Global Outreach Conducts Advanced Hematology Training in Guyana
ASCP piloted a new Advanced Hematology training in Georgetown, Guyana in February 2009. While Global Outreach has already held basic hematology trainings in eight PEPFAR countries, the workshop held in Guyana was the first that went beyond the basics and provided more in-depth knowledge and hands-on activities. more...
In Rwanda, Teaching the Teachers
When Aliyu Attahiru took over as head of the Biomedical Laboratory Sciences Department at the Kigali Health Institute in early 2008, he faced an immediate challenge: a badly out-of-date curriculum for the Bachelors of Science degree program.” more...
ASCP Participates in Global Health Council Conference
ASCP staff Marie Lehner, Alisa Tank and Andrea Bennett represented ASCP Global Outreach and ASCPi from May 26-29 at the Global Health Council 36th Annual Conference, which took place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. The theme of this year’s conference was “New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities.” more...
ASCP Appears in AFNET-Lab Newsletter
The ASCP's latest efforts in Uganda are featured in the African Field Epidemiology Network newsletter. The Uganda Ministry of Health, together with the CDC, and the ASCP held their last pilot course on laboratory management aimed at improving laboratory performance. See page 5 of the newsletter. more...
Two Weeks in Tanzania: A Situational Gap Analysis of Tanzania’s Certificate Level Schools of Medical Technology
During the last two weeks of January, 2009, ASCP Global Outreach consultants, Wendy Arneson and Perthena Latchaw left the cold North American winter and found themselves on a cross-country adventure in tropical Tanzania. Ms. Arneson and Ms. Latchaw were part of a group charged with the task of performing a Situational Gap Analysis of Tanzania’s certificate level schools of medical technology. more...
ASCP Appears in ‘The Dark Report’
Laboratory testing services continue to play an essential role in supporting patient treatments under PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ). One of the first laboratory organizations to receive funding in the current budget cycle is the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP). more...
Wilson Represents ASCP at APECSA
Michael Wilson, MD, FASCP, Chair of the ASCP Institute Advisory Committee, recently represented ASCP at the 9th International Conference of the Association of Pathologists of East, Central and South Africa (APECSA) in Mombassa, Kenya. more...
CDC Selects ASCP to Continue Fight Against HIV/AIDS
With the President’s signing of the HIV/AIDS reauthorization bill, the ASCP is again being called on by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue its efforts in strengthening laboratory services for the testing and monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients abroad. more...
Mozambique Consensus Conference
The ASCP Institute has joined forces with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO-AFRO) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to develop consensus standards on laboratory tests, instrumentation, and supplies to help countries in their efforts to overcome HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. more...
HIV Implementers Meeting in Uganda
Christina Mwangi, MD, Chief Laboratory Support Program for CDC-Tanzania served as the presenter of a jointly prepared abstract at the HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting June 3–7, 2008, in Kampala, Uganda. more...