Maintaining routine HIV and tuberculosis testing services in sub-Saharan African countries in the context of COVID-19: Lessons learnt and opportunities for improvement

Collins O. Otieno; Anafi Mataka; Marguerite Massinga Loembe; Pascale Ondoa

doi:10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1413

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Maintaining routine HIV and tuberculosis testing services in sub-Saharan African countries in the context of COVID-19: Lessons learnt and opportunities for improvement

Collins O. Otieno, Anafi Mataka, Marguerite Massinga Loembe, Pascale Ondoa

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 10, No 1 | a1413 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1413 | © 2021 Collins O. Odhiambo, Anafi Mataka, Marguerite Massinga Loembe, Pascale Ondoa | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 29 September 2020 | Published: 17 June 2021

About the author(s)

Collins O. Otieno, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Anafi Mataka, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Marguerite Massinga Loembe, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Laboratory Division, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Pascale Ondoa, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the, Netherlands

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Keywords

COVID-19; laboratory network; HIV; TB; Survey

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