Paraguay

Summary of activities by year

2015

• Shipment of panel strains for QA to DST

• Responding to consultations by e-mail

• Regional Meeting of Heads of National Programs for the Control of Tuberculosis – Meeting of the working group of Regional and Supranational Tuberculosis Laboratory - Panamá – From May 12th to 15th, 2015

• Workshop “Update on Laboratory techniques and procedures for  Tuberculosis diagnosis and surveillance”  - Guatemala – From August 25th to 27th, 2015

2014

• Shipment of panel strains for QA to DST

• Preparing of panel strains for GeneXpert EQA  as pilot assay

• Shipment of panel strains for GeneXpert EQA as pilot assay

• Responding to consultations by e-mail

• Analysis and  report to PAHO of the DST results in 2013 by the RNL from Uruguay, Paraguay, Cuba , and Argentina  

• Training provided in our lab from November 3rd to 8th, 2014

• Workshop “Update on Laboratory techniques and procedures for  Tuberculosis diagnosis and surveillance” - National Institute of Health, Lima, Peru. From March to April 2014

• Supra-national and National Reference Laboratories Heads of National Programs for the Control of Tuberculosis meeting - VIII Regional Meeting of TB / HIV Collaboration Activities - Mexico city, Mexico. From May 23rd to 29th, 2014  

2013

• Shipment of panel strains for QA to DST

• Responding to consultations by e-mail

• Translating, adapting and distribution of standard operating procedures (SOP) which have been published by STOP TB for basic equipment (light microscope, inspissator, balance, centrifuge, incubator, laminar flow and autoclave)

2012

• Shipment of panel strains for QA to DST

• Responding to consultations by e-mail