Editorial

Towards a fiercely urgent expansion of laboratory medicine in Africa

Iruka N. Okeke
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 10, No 1 | a1785 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1785 | © 2021 Iruka N. Okeke | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 11 November 2021 | Published: 17 December 2021

About the author(s)

Iruka N. Okeke, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Keywords

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine; Africa; quality assurance; point-of-care testing; HIV; laboratory; global health security; antimicrobial resistance surveillance; future of diagnostics; pandemic

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