Burkina Faso
Biosafety and biosecurity strengthening for GHSA priority diseases in Burkina Faso
Date: From Feb 27, 2017 to Sep 29, 2018
Country: Burkina Faso
IQLS has been contracted by the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) to conduct the initial biosafety and biosecurity (BS&S) assessments in Burkina Faso in line with the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) requirements, as well as to develop clear roadmaps to help define the way forward to meet GHSA requirements for the national laboratory system, and to assist with overall diagnostic improvments for GHSA priority diseases.
Nature of services:
-Identify laboratories and capacities in BS&S
-Develop a roadmap for improving BS&S in national and sub national facilities and implement certain BS&S improvment measures, as possible
-Develop a Biosafety guideline
-Develop a draft regulation on biosecurity
-Determine needs for a national specimen bank for priority pathogens
-Improve diagnostic testing capacities for priority diseases at selected national sites, including providing guidance for local media production as possible
-Design system for connecting laboratory information and epidemiological surveillance systems
-Develop improvments plan for laboratory stock management and procurement
-Train laboratory staff on WHONET
-Support the VHF laboratory in Muraz to subscribe EQA program for arbovirus
Project Missions & Events
Global Health Security Agenda-GHSA-Support with building laboratory systems capacity in Burkina Faso, ASLM, 2016
Date: From Jun 27, 2016 to Sep 29, 2016
Country: Burkina Faso
IQLS will collaborate with ASLM which support US CDC and Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso with building laboratory systems capacity in line with Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). IQLS will conduct a torough human laboratory system assessment in Burkina Faso to address GHSA priorities. Following the assessment, IQLS will review the results of the assessment and develop clear roadmap for addressing the gaps determined during the assessment with local teams in order to help define the way forward for meeting the GHSA requirements for the national laboratory system.
Project Missions & Events
Feasibility study of epidemiological services and health systems in the ECOWAS countries
Date: From Nov 05, 2015 to Apr 15, 2016
This assignement has been developped in consortium with m4Health. Study funded by KFW.Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, The, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
The Ebola outbreak has had substantial deleterious effects on the countries’ economies, public finances, and the health care system. WAHO and the member states in the ECOWAS region were not prepared to react adequately to respond to the emerging outbreak. In order to prevent future outbreaks WAHO identified a dominant weak point in the reaction to stop the epidemic: The deficiently equipped, underfinanced, and understaffed laboratories contributed widely to the inadequate reaction from the health sector. Based on the decision of the presidents of the ECOWAS member states to establish a Regional Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the existing CDC in Abuja has been chosen for an upgrade to the Regional CDC. Furthermore reference institutions should be established consecutively in all 15 ECOWAS countries. Existing laboratories should be upgraded to serve as specialized reference laboratories for the region within the framework of the RCDC. The objective of this assignment is to assess the need for upgrading of the existing specialized laboratories in the ECOWAS Region and the RCDC to be functional in the network structure and hence enabling them to better support the control of future epidemics. Secondly, the assignment will evaluate the envisaged interaction of these laboratories with the regional and with national CDCs and other institutional stakeholders and their positioning within the regional health sector. The focus is put on: - Reviewing the regional health sector and appraising the structure of project executing agency (PEA) - Assessing the Bio Safety Level (BSL) of the RCDC and 3 reference laboratories. - Assessing the communication and coordination between CDCs and laboratories. - Elaboration of a project proposal to upgrade the equipment, if required, of approximately three laboratories that are intended to have or to reach BSL 3. - Assessing the need to improve communication equipment of the institutions (regional and country CDCs, laboratories and WAHO).
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