LABORATORY QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMITTEE INAUGURATED

-          The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong has constituted a six-man State Laboratory Quality Assurance Committee, to monitor the sensitivity and  specification of the Rapid Diagnostic HIV Test Kits to ensure accurate and precise results.

-          The team is headed by a medical laboratory scientist in the Ministry, Mr. Stephen Udofia.

-          Inaugurating the Committee, Dr. Ukpong explained that the team’s key duty is to provide Quality Assurance of health kits, including post-market validation for all HIV kits provided for use by the state govt.

-          He revealed that 35m people world-wide are currently living with HIV/AIDS, with 24.7m from sub-Sahara Africa and Nigeria accounting for nearly half of all new infections in sub-Sahara Africa.

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