2022 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
2022 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week November 18-24 The 2022 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW, November 18 - 24) theme is “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together”. WAAW is a global campaign to…
Read More
Bringing COVID-19 Tests to Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
GHIG has spent years working to strengthen health systems in LMICs and prepare these countries for outbreaks and epidemics. We continue to work with key stakeholders, countries, and partners to…
Read More
Recommendations to Support COVID-19 Testing
Our work with technical experts, key opinion leaders and governments has provided us a unique position to share best practices around COVID-19 testing and contribute to recommendations. COVID-19 Think Tank…
Read More
COVID-19 Publications
We make every effort to have all of our work peer-reviewed, published and freely accessible. Below are links to some of the COVID materials we have contributed to. Maintaining HIV…
Read More
Education on COVID-19 Diagnostics and Testing
Testing for COVID-19 is necessary to identify infected individuals and interrupt transmission. COVID-19 has demonstrated the need for better understanding of diagnostics. Global Health Continuing Professional Development (GHCPD) GHIG has…
Read More
Our COVID-19 Response
As experts in diagnostics and testing strategies, GHIG has partnered with the International Diagnostics Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IDC/LSHTM) and other key partners on…
Read More
Africa CDC Bio Banking Network
Africa CDC established a bio banking network to support the development and evaluation of diagnostic tests in Africa. GHIG shared its lessons learned from Zika and other programs to develop…
Read More
Advanced HIV Disease
GHIG works with partners to bring attention to patients at risk for advanced HIV disease and to help identify them as early as possible supporting Who guidelines and the Package…
Read More
ASLM Conference Coordinator
GHIG was the conference coordinator for the 3rd and 4th African Society for Laboratory Medicine international conference (ASLM2016 and ASLM2018), held in Cape Town, South Africa, December 2016 and Abuja,…
Read More
Evaluation of Zika Singleplex and Multiplex diagnostics for clinical and surveillance use
GHIG is currently working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as part of the European Union (EU) funded ZikaPLAN project. The ZikaPLAN initiative is composed of…
Read More
AMR Education
In response to the growing concerns with antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly for the developing world, GHIG continues to collaborate with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and…
Read More
An Investment Case for Lateral Flow Assays (LFAs) for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
Ultrasensitive antigen tests are needed for early detection of numerous infectious diseases, and for surveillance and monitoring progress towards disease elimination. GHIG and IDC/LSHTM worked with the Global Good Fund…
Read More
WHO Addresses Indeterminate Ranges with Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) Testing
Recent advances with Prevent of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) programs due to Option B+ and at birth testing have created challenges with specificity of EID testing…
Read More
World Health Organization (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps facilitate, support and influence efforts to…
Read More
World Health Organization (WHO) Hepatitis Guidelines
GHIG supported the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with a series of systematic reviews of hepatitis diagnostics for the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) Hepatitis Guidelines.
Read More
Increased Dual HIV/Syphilis Testing for the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission
With support from WHO, Unicef and CDC, GHIG conducted a series of regional workshops and webinars, including country technical assistance, to support the elimination of HIV and syphilis through increased…
Read More
EMTCT Workshop In Shenzhen China
The EMTCT workshop in China was so highly productive and enjoyable! The workshop was in Shenzhen, China, 18-19 June. This meeting would not have been the success it was without…
Read More
ASLM2018 Scientific Committee Planning Meeting
Debi Boeras and Anyess Travers of GHIG were at the African Union in Addis Ababa for a 2 day planning meeting for the 4th international ASLM conference (ASLM2018). The meeting…
Read More
Role of CD4 cell counting in immune compromised patients
Dr. Debi Boeras and Ben Cheng were interviewed regarding the importance of CD4 cell counting in immune compromised patients. The article was also in The Telegraph. Role of CD4 cell…
Read More
