African Journal of Laboratory Medicine (Apr 2020)
Building diagnostic systems in Sierra Leone: The role of point-of-care devices in laboratory strengthening
- Rashid Ansumana,
- Fatmata Bah,
- Kan Biao,
- Doris Harding,
- Mohamed B. Jalloh,
- Ann H. Kelly,
- Francess Koker,
- Zikan Koroma,
- Mambu Momoh,
- Mohamed H. Rogers,
- James Rogers,
- Alice Street,
- Eva Vernooij,
- Isatta Wurie
Affiliations
- Rashid Ansumana
- School of Community Health Sciences, Njala University, Bo
- Fatmata Bah
- Kings Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Freetown
- Kan Biao
- Sierra Leone-China Friendship Biological Safety Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; and, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing
- Doris Harding
- Public Health Laboratories, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown
- Mohamed B. Jalloh
- Department of Community Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown
- Ann H. Kelly
- Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London, London
- Francess Koker
- Kings Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Freetown
- Zikan Koroma
- Sierra Leone-China Friendship Biological Safety Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; and, Clinical Laboratories and National Coordinator BioBanking and Biosecurity, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Mambu Momoh
- Kenema Government Hospital, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, Kenema, Sierra Leone; and, School of Nursing and Medical Laboratory Sciences, Eastern Polytechnic, Kenema
- Mohamed H. Rogers
- College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown
- James Rogers
- Laboratory Technical Working Group, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown
- Alice Street
- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
- Eva Vernooij
- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
- Isatta Wurie
- College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v9i2.1029
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 2
pp. e1 – e5
Abstract
No abstract available.
Keywords
- point of care testing
- diagnostics
- sierra leone
- health systems strengthening
- laboratory strengthening
