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Technical assistance to public health laboratories in the Philippines
Date: July 2025 – December 2025
Country : Philippines
For the Philippines Business for Social Progress, IQLS is providing technical assistance to the OHL-DOH, to strengthen the Philippine health laboratory system by improving the coordination of laboratory services and accreditation… Read more
Laboratory Evaluation in Madagascar
Date: July 2024 – October 2024
Country : Madagascar
For the Ministry of Health of Madagascar, IQLS undertook a comprehensive evaluation of 24 laboratories across the country to develop an investment plan supported by World Bank funding. The evaluation focused… Read more
Implementation of a laboratory information system- iqLIS in Gabon
Date: August 2024 – December 2025
Countries: Gabon
With support from The Global Fund, IQLS was selected to carry out a data management workflow assessment in Gabon and to install iqLIS, a free LIMS developed in-house by IQLS, in 10… Read more
Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa 2- TDDAP2
Date: April 2025 – March 2026
Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda
With funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Palladium has won the second Phase of the Tackling Deadly Diseases Africa Programme TDDAP 2.… Read more
Bacterial Meningitis Diagnostics– Country Readiness Assessment
Date: April 2025 – December 2025
Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo
IQLS implemented the Bacterial Meningitis Diagnostics– Country Readiness Assessment on behalf of Gavi,… Read more
Technical oversight, supervision and commissioning of a BSL-3 laboratory in El Salvador
Date: July 2025 – December 2026
Country : El Salvador
For the Ministry of Health of El Salvador, with funding from The Global Fund, IQLS is providing technical oversight, supervision, and commissioning support for a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) National… Read more
Laboratory technical assistance in Madagascar
Date: July 2025 – June 2026
Country : Madagascar
This initiative builds on the results of a 2024 national laboratory assessment conducted by IQLS, which revealed key challenges across the laboratory sector in Madagascar.
The project aims to address these… Read more
Modernizing Multiprofile Medical Centers in Uzbekistan, phase IV
Date: June 2024 – September 2027
Country : Uzbekistan
IQLS is part of a consortium led by GITEC-IGIP GmbH, to Modernize Multiprofile Medical Centers in Uzbekistan, phase IV. The goal of this project is to improve the quality, efficiency… Read more
Laboratory biosafety and biosecurity webinar series part II: fundamentals of laboratory biosecurity
With the support of the U.S. CDC, under the Regional Diagnostic Strengthening initiative in Southeast Asia, IQLS is organizing a webinar series on biosafety and biosecurity. It is a three-part webinar series focusing on the essential elements and principles of… Read more
Improving laboratory capacities in the health sector for quality assured diagnostics in Cambodia
Date: September 2022 – August 2024
Country : Cambodia
Mid-2024, IQLS in consortium with management4health completed the project for improving laboratory capacities in the health sector for quality-assured diagnostics under the Improving Social Protection and Health (ISPH) initiative, providing access… Read more
Laboratory technical assistance in the Philippines
Date: July 2024 – December 2025
Country : The Philippines
Recognizing the vital role of laboratories and the One Health approach, the Global Fund, through the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), initiated a One Health project to support the… Read more
Biostatistics and Data Management training in the Philippines
As part of an IQLS project to strengthen public health laboratories in the Philippines, a comprehensive training on biostatistics and data management was conducted in Manila from March 3 to 7, 2025. This initiative, in collaboration with PBSP (Philippines Business for Social Progress), brought together 17 participants from key institutions, including:- Office for Health Laboratories (OHL)
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM)
- Philippine Heart Center (PHC)
- Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP)
- National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI)
- East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC)
- San Lazaro Hospital (SLH)
- Fundamentals of biostatistics, combining theory with hands-on exercises
- MS Excel for biostatistics calculations
- Statistical applications in Internal Quality Control (IQC)
- The link between statistics, method validation, and method verification
- Confidence interval, method comparison, regression analysis
- Using statistics for epidemiological analysis
OPEN ENROLLMENT: Join the IQLS national EQA workshop and bench-level training in Lyon
With the rise of emerging diseases and global health challenges, ensuring diagnostic excellence is no longer optional – it is essential, with EQA as a crucial step for all laboratories engaged in QMS, certification or accreditation.
The rising costs of international EQA panels and the challenges of shipping live microorganisms are pushing many countries toward cost-effective national solutions.
A national EQA program for bacteriology, serology, and PCR can ensure high-quality diagnostics, strengthen health systems, and align with global standards, all with reliable simulated specimens and a structured, documented approach.
To this end, IQLS is organizing two trainings in Lyon in September 2025:
📝 National EQA program development workshop
Duration: 15–19 September 2025 (5 days)
Languages: English, French, Russian
Target audience:
- National EQA program scheme managers and staff
- QA division team members
- ISO specialists
- Laboratory coordination specialists
- Technical staff from specialized units involved in EQA sample preparation
- Technical advisors working for funders, NGOs, or institutions involved in EQA
This workshop aims to develop policies and procedures for a national EQA program. The attendees will receive comprehensive documentation, procedures, and guidelines expediting the program implementation and create a roadmap for EQA activities in their country of work.
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🔬 National EQA bench-level training
Duration: 22–26 September 2025 (5 days)
Languages: English
Target audience:
- Microbiologists, laboratory technologists, and technicians
- EQA scheme managers or production staff
This hands-on training will allow participants to prepare various simulated microbiological samples. They will receive all standard operating procedures, produce and ensure quality control on simulated samples such as stools, pus swabs, urine and some serology.
Report: Country visit to North Macedonia to advance One Health responses against AMR
As part of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiative, in consortium with Epiconcept company: Epidemiology – e-Health – Data science and collaborating with European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and DG Santé, IQLS team recently joined a… Read more
Strengthening laboratory capacities in Madagascar
Since August 2024, IQLS has been leading a project aimed at strengthening laboratory capacity in Madagascar to better identify epidemic situations and other health emergencies across animal, human, and environmental sectors, through technical evaluation.
To accomplish this, IQLS brought together… Read more
IQLS EQA Webinar series: Data management and program reviews
Within the Regional Diagnostic Strengthening initiative, supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, IQLS is organizing a Laboratory EQA webinar series. This third and last session on data management and program reviews, featuring two guest speakers from… Read more
Enhancing the Laboratory Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Testing Capacity (LAARC) tool
IQLS is collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enhance the Laboratory Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance Testing Capacity (LAARC) tool for use in clinical bacteriology laboratories in low- and middle-income countries. This tool, developed in 2017,… Read more
LAST CHANCE: Enroll in our Laboratory system implementation workshop in Lyon (September 2024)
Implementation of a simple, reliable and cost-effective laboratory network is not an easy task. To help countries better prepare for the next public health threats, IQLS is organizing a unique workshop that aims to gather One Health laboratory specialists from… Read more
IQLS EQA webinar series: EQA specimen management and result evaluation
Within the Regional Diagnostic Strengthening initiative, supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, IQLS is organizing a Laboratory EQA webinar series. The second session on EQA specimen management and result evaluation will take place on Thursday, 2… Read more
IQLS EQA webinar series: EQA Program Planning and Development
Within the Regional Diagnostic Strengthening initiative, supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, IQLS is organizing a Laboratory EQA webinar series. The first session, on Thursday 14 March 2024, 3.00-5:00 pm ICT, on EQA Program Planning and… Read more
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