SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

Aims To systematically identify and synthesise health service accreditation literature.
Methods A systematic identification and narrative synthesis of health service accreditation …

Objectives Efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic have underscored the fragile and
neglected nature of some national health laboratories in A frica. In response, national and …

Background Accreditation programs are complex, system-wide quality and safety
interventions. Despite their international popularity, evidence of their effectiveness is weak …

Objective The study aim was twofold: to investigate and describe the organizational
attributes of accreditation programmes in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to …

Properly functioning laboratory equipment is a critical component for strengthening health
systems in developing countries. The laboratory can be an entry point to improve population …

Improving clinical and public health laboratories should be one of the main goals of
strengthening health systems, rather than a desirable afterthought. In this respect, in July …

Background: The National HIV Reference Laboratory (NHRL) serves as Kenya's referral HIV
laboratory, offering specialised testing and external quality assessment, as well as operating …

Objective To implement a mentored laboratory quality stepwise implementation (LQSI)
programme to strengthen the quality and capacity of Cambodian hospital laboratories …

Background: Past efforts to improve laboratory quality systems and to achieve accreditation
for better patient care in the Caribbean Region have been slow. Objective: To describe the …