World Health Organization African Region national heads of units of diagnostics and laboratory services meetings proceedings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region, many cases of serious and preventable diseases remain unmanaged because appropriate and good quality diagnostic support is not available at all levels within countries' health systems. Diagnostic and laboratory services influence the efficiency and effectiveness of both clinical and public health functions, including diagnosis, treatment, health promotion, disease prevention, surveillance and response, and research. Essential to global health security, these services are vital to decision-making processes by clinicians, epidemiologists, public health specialists, and health policymakers. To update, promote, and reinforce diagnostic and laboratory services, it was deemed necessary to organize consultation meetings. Th

SUBMITTER: Coulibaly SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11603677 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature