Our Story
OUR
STORY STARTED IN 2007
Global Health Systems Solutions (GHSS) is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization created in 2007 to strengthen surveillance and medical laboratory systems, services, and networks in developing countries, and also conduct operational research to support healthcare programs. Its Head Office is in Denver-Bonamoussadi, Littoral Region of Cameroon. The Organization has been PEPFAR’s laboratory implementing partner in Ghana, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where laboratory Quality Management has been carried out since 2010. Our performance has earned us; the US Ambassador’s Honor Award for Programme Partnership and Support for the SLMTA/SLIPTA Program in Ghana, and the US Director of CDC and Administrator, ATSDR International Excellence in Partnering Award for improving the quality of laboratories in developing countries through implementation of quality management systems.
- Train and enroll facilities in the HIV EQA program,
- Support EQA for TB, EID, CD4, and VL
- Implement VL/IVT Scorecard at Viral Load reference labs
- Monitor and improve viral load testing and coverage
- Support and Improve sample collection and transport to reference labs and return of results to facilities
- Support selected labs toward accreditation
- Certification of biosafety cabinet and Calibration of Ancillary Equipments
- Minor infrastructural upgrade and refurbishment
- Collect required program data for analysis and reporting
- We build the capacity of laboratory personnel on QMS, laboratory Quality Assurance, laboratory biosafety, HIV RT, and CQI
- Assist facilities in developing the required documentation; SOPs, Job Aids, forms, and Manuals for quality laboratory testing
- Mentor facilities on HIV quality assurance and quality testing
- Mentor facilities on the use of the National quality assurance logbook and respect of the HIV National Testing Algorithm
- Monitor progress and supervise facilities using standard tools; SLIPTA Checklist, SPI-RT Checklist, SPI-POCT Checklist, SIMS Checklist).
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Success
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
- 5 labs accredited to ISO 15189 standards
- 32+ labs in seven countries enrolled on ISO 15189 accreditation proces
- 357+ Lab Staff trained on SLMTA
- 150+labs enrolled in the CD4 PT program
- 196+lab technicians, medical doctors
- 7 SLMTA Master Trainers Graduated
- 1136+ HIV testing sites enrolled for HIV DTS Proficiency Test
- 77+ trained on performing basic equipment maintenance and calibration
- 3345+ lab & non-lab personnel trained to support Continuous Quality Improvement
- 15+ Biosafety Cabinets Continuously Certified
- 09 Central Africa Countries Covered
- 01 ECHO launched to supervise labs enrolled for accreditation
- 24 SLMTA Trainers Trained
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“Special appreciation to GHSS and its partners for imparting our staff with knowledge and skills necessary for quality assurance in healthcare delivery. Though we have successfully gone through the training process, the National Public Health Laboratory still looks up to GHSS for continuous support.”
“It’s a feeling of great joy and satisfaction. I am very happy that our mentors, GHSS and CDC, who led the Bamenda Regional Hospital (where I was the Director) to accreditation, have done same to the Limbe Regional Hospital where I have recently been appointed. They did a great job in training and mentoring this facility throughout the accreditation process”
“GHSS has been with us all along; they have trained us on Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA), Internal and External Quality Control, Root Cause Analysis, Corrective and Preventive Actions, Quality Assurance of HIV Rapid Testing, and Laboratory Quality Assurance among others. The Organization has been engaged in certifying our biosafety cabinet and calibrating our equipment. They did the first calibration free of charge before our accreditation and have continued thereafter.”