Opinion Paper

Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen laboratory diagnostics – Why access to reliable and affordable diagnostics is key to building resilient laboratory systems

Dhamari Naidoo, Chikwe Ihekweazu
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 9, No 2 | a1019 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v9i2.1019 | © 2020 Dhamari Naidoo, Chikwe Ihekweazu | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 March 2019 | Published: 26 August 2020

About the author(s)

Dhamari Naidoo, WHO Health Emergency Program, Infectious Hazard Management, World Health Organisation, Abuja, Nigeria
Chikwe Ihekweazu, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

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Keywords

infectious disease; diagnostic capacity; laboratory networks; laboratory; diagnostics; outbreak.

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