LabCoP is led by the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the technical support from ICAP at Columbia University, and Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico. LabCoP fosters a knowledge exchange and joint learning by linking together country teams and global experts, and sharing the knowledge and best practices of viral load scale up and lab systems strengthening amongst ministries of health.

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May 2025 LabCoP Extended ECHO session: Improving Public Health Lab Surveillance

This is the latest LabCoP Extended ECHO session | May 2025 | Read the session's report and watch the recording here.

For the latest LabCoP updates or to watch previous sessions, click here.

ASLM's and LabCoP's Resources

This is designed to help you keep up with the latest tool kits, regulations, guides and other information published by ASLM, partners, and global health regulatory bodies. Check the resource page to locate the information you need. In order to identify the LabCoP's resources, you can filter the content using the LabCoP filter.

LabCoP’s Cookbook of Best Practices

ASLM is pleased to introduce LabCoP’s Cookbook of Best Practices! This series of recipes, consisting of considerations and best practices, will cover a variety of topics along the viral load cascade. These recipes are the result of south-to-south information sharing of country teams across Africa that participate in ASLM’s LabCoP and monthly ECHO Sessions.

LabCoP takes on COVID-19

Since the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency in 2020, ASLM's LabCoP has used its network to join the fight and embolden the medical laboratory response across Africa. Watch the video here.

Special COVID-19 ECHO Sessions

Here you can find the playlist with all the 53 LabCoP COVID-19 ECHO sessions from March 2020 to April 2022.

More Resources & Tools

  • The GeneXpert Capacity Utilisation Analysis Tool (March 2021): The GX Capacity Utilisation Analysis Tool is an Excel-based tool to assess the capacity utilisation of GeneXpert platforms for integrating tuberculosis (TB), HIV, HCV and HPV testing. It has been used to identify platforms running with full-capacity and with un-used capacity to inform integration decisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and ... Read More
  • Integration Readiness Assessment Tool (March 2021): The Integration Readiness Assessment Tool is a checklist to evaluate and help select the sites in a country where tuberculosis (TB)/HIV/HCV/HPV integration on the GeneXpert platform would be most feasible. Read More
  • Multiplexing Analysis Tool (April 2020): Mozambique provided this Excel-based tool, with its accompanying instructions, as a country example of a comprehensive diagnostic network optimization or mapping tool at the July 2019 Global Diagnostics Integration meeting in Geneva. The government sought a tool that could be: subnational, consider multiple potential technologies as well as both laboratory-based and point-of-care, incorporate testing across… Read More
  • Diagnostic Pricing Database (September 2021): Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) currently experience low testing coverage in the face of increasing demand to meet the needs of millions of people living with HIV, TB, HPV, hepatitis and other diseases. Therefore, innovative solutions are urgently needed to enable a robust, efficiently utilised testing capacity, and a healthy and secure market with competitive… Read More