ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia2023
The COVID-19 laboratory response in Timor-Leste; a story of collaboration.
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- Assessment of public health laboratory preparedness and response in WHO South-East Asia region during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and future directions.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Review
- Best Practices in the Management ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Review
- Antimicrobial prescribing in referral hospitals in Timor-Leste: results of the first two national point prevalence surveys, 2020-21.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
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- National cross-sectional cluster survey of tuberculosis prevalence in Timor-Leste: a study protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
- "Nothing without connection"-Participant perspectives and experiences of mentorship in capacity building in Timor-Leste.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- The response to COVID-19 in Timor-Leste: lessons learnt.BMJ global health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Timor-Leste is a small nation of 1.3 million people which shares a land border with Indonesia and is 550 km from Darwin, Australia. It is one of the poorest nations in Asia. The National Health Laboratory (NHL) and its network of smaller laboratories in Timor-Leste had limited capacity to perform molecular diagnostic testing before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began. With the support of international development partners, the NHL rapidly expanded its molecular testing service. From March 2020 to February 2022, over 200,000 molecular tests were performed; COVID-19 testing sites were established in hospital and community health center laboratories and all 13 municipalities, and the number of scientists and technicians at the molecular diagnostic laboratory at the NHL increased from five to 28 between 2019 and 2022. Molecular diagnostic testing for COVID-19 was successfully established at the NHL and in the municipalities. The molecular diagnostic laboratory at NHL is now equipped to respond to not only large-scale COVID-19 testing but also laboratory detection of other infectious diseases, preparing Timor-Leste for future outbreaks or pandemics.
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