The emergence and rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus, causative agent of COVID-19 pandemic saw the need for health facilities across the globe to strengthen surveillance and provide quality diagnostic service to patients/clients that utilize the facility. This prompted management […]
The Centre for Health Systems Strengthening (CfHSS) in Collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ghana Health Service is organizing a workshop on Basic Molecular Biology. Date: 8th – 12th February, 2021Venue: Anita […]
Congratulations!! to Professor Awandare and his Team from the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens ( WACCBIP ) for once again taking the lead in the identification of this new SARS-CoV-2 variant in Ghana. I will attempt to […]
The Centre for Health Systems Strengthening (CfHSS) has held workshops for the Public health laboratory staff and Disease Surveillance officers in the Northern and Western regions of Ghana on the 11th and 18th of November 2020 respectively. These workshops […]
IN HOUSE TRAINING OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES BY TECHNICAL CONSULTANT As part of strengthening the microbiology diagnostic capacity of the three Public Health Laboratories (PHLs) in Ghana, the Centre for Health System Strengthening (a locally based health-based NGO) placed […]
The Centre for Health System Strengthening (CfHSS) has received an award from the Pan-African Consortuim and Institute de Recherche’ en Sante’ de Surveillance Epide’miologique et Formation / Cheikh Anta Diop University (IRESSEF/CADU) to build capacity in the area of […]
STRENGTHENING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE OF PRIORITY DISEASES IN GHANA Since 2003 when outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome occurred, the WHO and its member countries made efforts to introduce guidelines and action points […]
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SHEEP BLOOD SUPPLY FOR THE THREE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES (PHLs) IN GHANA The use of appropriate quality materials and reagents for bacteriological cultures is key to bacterial growth, identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Over the years, public […]
The Centre for Health System Strengthening (CfHSS) has partnered with GHS, CDC and ASLM to organise the Stepwise Process for Improving the Quality of HIV Rapid Testing (SPI-RT) Workshop in Accra, Ghana. The aim of the workshop was to […]
