Assessing the impact of regional laboratory networks in East and West Africa on national health security capacities.

ABSTRACT: National laboratories are a fundamental capacity for public health, contributing to disease surveillance and outbreak response. The establishment of regional laboratory networks has been posited as a means of improving health security across multiple countries. Our study objective was to assess whether membership in regional laboratory networks in Africa has an effect on national health security capacities and outbreak response. We conducted a literature review to select regional laboratory networks in the Eastern and Western African regions. We examined data from the World Health Organization Joint External Evaluation (JEE) mission reports, the 2018 WHO States Parties Annual Report (SPAR), and the 2019 Global Health Security Index (GHS). We compared the average scores of countries that ar

SUBMITTER: League A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208488 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature