9th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Laboratory

May 21 - 23, 2024, Cairo (Egypt)

Resources

Laboratory Working Group progress in 2023/2024

Moderator: N. Wauquier, WHO & GTFCC

2023 - 2024 highlights

M. L. Quilici, Institut Pasteur

Global deployment of RDT for cholera surveillance

A. Sinha, Gavi

Catalysts for enhanced surveillance in the Democratic Republic of Congo

P. Okitayemba, MOH & X. Wang, CDC

Rapid diagnostic tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

W. Moser, Epicentre (Online)

A GAVI funded project to pilot the use of cholera RDTs in Nepal

A. Debes, JHU

GTFCC testing strategy for cholera surveillance

Moderators: A. Debes, JHU & X. Wang, CDC

2024 guidance for cholera surveillance testing strategy

M. Turnsek, CDC

Experience sharing - Malawi M. Nyanje (MoH) (Online)

M. Nyanje, MoH (Online)

J. P. Langa, MOH

Experience sharing - Mozambique

Experience sharing - Nepal

S. Dahal, MoHP

Laboratory capacity and competency

Moderator: A. Mataka, ASLM

GTFCC tools for laboratory capacity assessment

V. Harris, WHO (Online)

Experience from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

B. Miwanda, INRB Kinshasa

Experience from Cameroun

A. Mfoulou Assala, LNSP Yaounde

GTFCC laboratory training tools

A. Abou Fayad, WHO & GTFCC

Experience from Comoros

D. Soule, MoH (Online)

National ToT, experience from South Sudan

G. Awin, MoH

Genomics for cholera surveillance

Moderator: L. Meredith, WHO & EMRO

Updating the GTFCC recommendations

A. Abou Fayad, WHO & GTFCC

Country experience - Lebanon

A. Abou Fayad, WHO & GTFCC

Training for sequencing

L. Meredith, EMRO

Use-case for genomics for cholera surveillance

L. Meredith, WHO & EMRO

Open forum on cholera surveillance

Moderator: A. Azman, JHU & T. Thomas, IFRC

Understanding endemic cholera and control: Lessons from Uvira, DRC

A. Azman, JHU

Cholera diagnosis at the National Public Health Laboratory, Cameroun

C. Killa, LNSP (Online)

Updates from an evaluation of 5 cholera RDTs in Dhaka, Bangladesh

T. Bhuiyan, icddr,b

Cholera testing in MSF programs

E. Piriou, MSF (Online)

Shaping the way forward

Moderator: P. Barboza, WHO & GTFCC

Priorities for the Laboratory Working Group

M. L. Quilici, Institut Pasteur