Medical Laboratory Services in Africa Deserve More

Quality of Medical Laboratory Services in a Tertiary Health Institution in Sokoto, Nigeria

Background and Aims: The issue of the quality in healthcare cannot be ignored anymore. Laboratories play vital roles in control and prevention of diseases by providing timely and accurate result for patient management including disease surveillance. The aim of the study is to assess the quality of laboratory services in a Tertiary Health Institution in Sokoto. Materials and Methods: A descript...

Are laboratory services coming of age in sub-Saharan Africa?

Received 18 October 2005; accepted 19 October 2005; electronically published 20 December 2005. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Kathryn Maitland, The Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, PO Box 230, Kilifi, Kenya ([email protected]). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006; 42:383–4 2005 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights re...

Quality of medical laboratory services in resource-limited settings.

This report endorses the author's own views on the subject after taking up a laboratory adviser mission in Africa. Taking the example of laboratory services practice in sub-Saharan countries, it is shown that diagnosis of diseases which require the use of laboratory suffer from lapses in the quality of case-detection and case-reporting. These services lack management and an information system t...

Peacekeepers deserve more mental health research and care

SUMMARY United Nations peacekeeping personnel face numerous stressors due to their challenging deployments. Past studies have had inconsistent results regarding whether or not their deployment experience affects their mental health outcomes. Further studies are required to ascertain the associations between their outcomes and factors before, during and after their peacekeeping missions. DECLA...

Laboratory Reference Intervals in Africa