REGISTRATION
7:00 am - 4:30 pm

EXHIBIT AND POSTER HALL
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

MORNING SEMINARS

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PLENARY SESSION

ORAL SESSIONS

• 1.1 HIV Diagnosis and Viral Load Testing
• 1.2 Strengthening Laboratory Management Systems
• 1.3 TB Drug Resistance
• 1.4 Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases
• 1.5 External Quality Assurance Programmes
• 1.6 Partnership and Laboratory Networks

MID-DAY SEMINARS

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ORAL POSTERS (Ballroom East/West

• 1.1 Evaluating Novel Tests
• 1.2 HIV and Co-Infections
• 1.3 Laboratory Quality Improvement

SYMPOSIA

• Scaling up Access to Viral Load in Africa: Progress and Challenges
• TB Global Laboratory Initiative for Africa: From Guidance to Implementation
• Accrediting Clinical and Laboratory Systems and Services: Need to Tie the Two
• Partnerships in Strengthening Laboratory Capacity in Africa

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EBOLA SPECIAL SESSION

Frontline Experience with the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

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ROUND TABLES

• An Update on Progress towards the ASLM2020 Goals for Laboratory Strengthening in Africa
• Strengthening Laboratory Networks and Public Health Laboratories in Africa
• Public-Private Partnerships to Support Connectivity for Diagnostics in Resource-Limited Settings
• Laboratory Supply Chain Management Challenges in Africa

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EVENING SEMINARS

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REGISTRATION
7:00 am - 4:30 pm

EXHIBIT AND POSTER HALL
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

MORNING SEMINARS

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PLENARY SESSION

ORAL SESSIONS

• 2.1 Point-of-Care (POC) Diagnostics
• 2.2 HIV Coinfection (Hepatitis B, STIs, and Cryptococcus)
• 2.3 Improving TB Diagnosis
• 2.4 Monitoring Rotavirus and Enteric Diseases
• 2.5 Improvement toward Laboratory Accreditation
• 2.6 Human Resource Development for Laboratory

MID-DAY SEMINARS

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ORAL POSTERS (Ballroom East/West)

• 2.1 Laboratory Information Management Systems
• 2.2 Role of Laboratory in Epidemiology
• 2.3 HIV-Related Diagnostics

SYMPOSIA

• The Changing Face of Laboratory Quality Management Systems in Africa
• Strengthening the Practice of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Africa
• Cryptococcal Rapid Diagnostic Testing: Lessons Learned on Programme Implementation and Diagnostic Access Issues
• The Diagnostics Access Initiative

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ROUND TABLES

• Quality Assurance Strategies to Accelerate Uptake of HIV-Related Diagnostics in Africa
• Update on the Stepwise Process Towards Laboratory Quality Systems and Accreditation in Africa
• Laboratory Workforce Development: Harmonisation & Competence
• Diagnostics Market Intelligence in Africa
• Promising Point-of-Care Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis Technologies

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EVENING SEMINARS

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REGISTRATION
7:00 am - 4:30 pm

EXHIBIT AND POSTER HALL
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

MORNING SEMINARS

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PLENARY SESSION

ORAL SESSIONS

• 3.1 Antimicrobial Resistance
• 3.2 Advances in CD4 Testing
• 3.3 Advances in Early Infant Diagnosis
• 3.4 Diagnostic Innovations
• 3.5 The Journey to Laboratory Accreditation
• 3.6 The Role of Laboratory in Outbreak Response

MID-DAY SEMINARS

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ORAL POSTERS (Ballroom East/West)

• 3.1 Testing and Health System Strengthening
• 3.2 Drug Resistance
• 3.3 Laboratory-Based Surveillance and Epidemiology

SYMPOSIA

• Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa
• Innovative Solutions for HIV Diagnosis and Monitoring
• The Role of Anatomic Pathology in Improving Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Evidence to Support Influenza Vaccination in Africa
• Update on Vaccine Preventable Diseases Laboratory Networks in Africa

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ROUND TABLES

• A Roadmap for Laboratory Strengthening in Africa
• The Role of Rapid Tests in Improving the Clinical Management of Patients Presenting With Chronic Fever, Intestinal and Neurological Disorders
• Ensuring the Quality of Point-of-Care Testing (POCT): Need for Innovative Approaches
• A Collaborative Approach to Market Entry and Procurement of Diagnostic Products
• The Changing Role of the Laboratory in Support of Sexually Transmitted Infection Control Programmes in Africa

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AWARDS CEREMONY

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REGISTRATION
7:00 am - 2:00 pm

EXHIBIT AND POSTER HALL
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

MORNING SEMINARS

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PLENARY SESSION

ORAL SESSIONS

• 4.1 Impact of Surveillance
• 4.2 Influenza and Respiratory Infections
• 4.3 HIV Proficiency Testing
• 4.4 Sustainable Laboratory Information Systems
• 4.5 Improving Biosafety and Laboratory Equipment
• 4.6 Return on Investment in Laboratory

MID-DAY SEMINARS

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ORAL POSTERS (Exhibition hall)

• 4.1 Diagnostic Innovations
• 4.2 Policy and Networking
• 4.3 External Quality Assurance Programmes

SYMPOSIA

• Advancing Towards HIV Drug Resistance Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings: What & How?
• Role of Laboratory in Surveillance: Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Program (FELTP)
• Laboratory Networks in Global Health Security
• Advances in Implementing Quality Assured Point-of-Care Testing

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