National Health Laboratory Services Project

THPS have been implementing the ‘Strengthening the Quality, Accessibility, and Sustainability of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) in Tanzania under PEPFAR project since January 2018. THPS collaborates with Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC), PORALG and MOH Zanzibar and respective departments, sections and programs in these ministries to strengthen laboratory systems and services at all levels of the healthcare system; from central, regional, district and Health Facility levels. The project goal is to strengthen the six tier Tanzania NHLS to achieve and monitor progress toward the UNAIDS 95-95-95.

 

 

Projects Achievements

       Project Areas of Support

  1. Expansion of continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities to ensure quality assured HIV rapid testing in all testing points within health facilities.
  2. Enhancement of laboratory information systems (LIS) and use of laboratory-generated data in all laboratories.
  3. Enhance utilization of point-of-care testing (POCT) for TB; GeneXpert testing to increase TB case detection in the country.
  4. Scaling up quality of lab testing activities and laboratory biosafety at all levels
  5. Providing technical assistance on laboratory commodities supply chain management improvement including forecasting and quantification in all laboratories
  1. Enhance quality of testing and laboratory biosafety
    1. Supported review of equipment calibration training package
    2. Supported development of biosafety & biosecurity evaluation checklist
    3. Trained 28 equipment calibration focal persons (biomedical engineers & lab staff) from National, zonal and specialized hospitals.
    4. Procured and donated additional equipment calibration tool kits for temperature, weight, volume and speed to the Equipment Calibration Centre at National Public Health Laboratory.
  2. Enhancement of Laboratory information system
    1. Supported integration of laboratory information systems (Disa*Lab, eVLIMS, TileLab, LabNet and Jeeva) with OpenLDR.
    2. Supported integration of OpenLDR with CTC2/CTC3 database of NACP
    3. Supported migration of MOHCDGEC servers to National internet and data centre (NIDC).

3. Support to laboratory supply chain management

Conducted data quality assessment (DQA) to Dodoma region R/CHMTs commodity managers to improve quality of data in eLMIS reporting and increase commodity and data availability for decision making.

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