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| Title: | Laboratory Medicine in Africa: A Barrier to Effective Health Care |
| Authors: | Petti, Cathy A
Polage, Christopher R
Quinn, Thomas C
Ronald, Allan R
Sande, Merle A |
| Keywords: | Laboratory
Medicine
Health Care
Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS
Tuberclosis
Malaria |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Citation: | Petti, C.A., Polage, C.R., Quinn, T.C., Ronald, T.A., Sande, M.A. (2006).Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 42(1) |
| Abstract: | Providing health care in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex problem. Recent reports call for more resources to assist in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases that affect this population, but policy makers, clinicians, and the public
frequently fail to understand that diagnosis is essential to the prevention and treatment of disease. Access to reliable diagnostic
testing is severely limited in this region, and misdiagnosis commonly occurs. Understandably, allocation of resources to
diagnostic laboratory testing has not been a priority for resource-limited health care systems, but unreliable and inaccurate
laboratory diagnostic testing leads to unnecessary expenditures in a region already plagued by resource shortages, promotes
the perception that laboratory testing is unhelpful, and compromises patient care. We explore the barriers to implementing
consistent testing within this region and illustrate the need for a more comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of infectious
diseases, with an emphasis on making laboratory testing a higher priority. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1840 |
| ISSN: | 1058-4838 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (IDI)
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