SYSTEMATIZATION OF POSSIBLE ROUTES FOR THE CONTINUITY OF PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY THE TUBERCULOSIS LABORATORY NETWORK / Program: "Strengthening of the Tuberculosis Laboratory Network in The Americas"

ABSTRACT

A study of Systematization of experiences and learning derived from the implementation of the project has been recently developed, highlighting that all technical teams in the 20 countries have benefited from training and updating tools to shorten diagnostic times and deliver results with greater quality, even having a cascading improvement effect for the network of each country, since knowledge and practices have been shared with establishments of other levels of complexity in which samples are also processed and cases are received. The report resulting from the Systematization study presents a series of challenges that merit follow-up, and a review of the state of progress within it and the potential for sustainability, as an input for the continuity of actions on the issue of TB beyond the GF regional grant. That analysis constitutes the center of this document