LabCoP Face-to-Face Agenda: October 2019

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LabCoP Face-to-Face Agenda: October 2019

DAY 4: Towards safer, practical, and sustainable methods/technologies for the disposal of laboratory
waste

Friday, 25 October – Waste Management
Time Session Facilitator/Presenters
8:30 - Session 14 | Introductions and setting the scene Nqobile Ndlovu (ASLM)
9:30 • Welcome remarks

• Workshop outline and outcomes: Towards safer, Franziska Fuerst (Global Fund)
practical, and sustainable systems for management
of medical waste
• Keynote: The need for safer Management of Medical
Thomas Stevens (CDC- Zambia)
Waste: policy, regulation frameworks

• Overview of current guidance on WM – WHO Blue
Book on safe management Dave Bressler (CDC)
• Knowledge sharing and identification of best
practices for waste management within LabCoP Anafi Mataka (ASLM)
• Q&A (10 min)
9:30 - Session 15 | Best practices and solutions from the Malawi MoH
11:00 field (10 min each)
• Viral Load/EID waste management (15 min) Dave Bressler (CDC)
• Trans Border Movement of waste/Cement Factory
• Malawi: High Temperature Incineration, Cement
Factory Malawi MoH
• Zimbabwe: Costing for WM Solutions Zimbabwe MoH
• South Africa: Policy and Regulatory Frameworks South Africa NHLS
• Q&A (25 min)
11:00 Coffee/Tea break
11:20 - Session 16 | Panel discussion / Private Sector Raiva Simbi (Zimbabwe)
13:00 roundtable
• What role can the private sector play in the Panel Discussion - Key Private
reduction and waste disposal of medical/Laboratory partners
waste
• How can LabCoP gather partners, countries and
private sector to improve the adoption of safer and
more cost-effective WM practices?
13:00 Lunch
14:00 - Session 17 | Current efforts on waste management Tanzania MOH
15:20 • Perspective for strengthening national waste Franziska Fuerst (Global Fund)
management systems: (20 min)
• Findings from Facility assessments (CDC-ILB -GF Dave Bressler (CDC)/MoHs
ASLM) (40 min)
• Applying the LabCoP theory of action to the Collins Odhiambo (ASLM)
strengthening of waste management systems (10
min)
• Q&A (10 min)
15:20 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 - Group discussions and action planning: way forward Anafi Mataka (ASLM)
16:30 toward improvement interventions
16:30 - Closing remarks BMGF, GF, CDC, ASLM
16:45