AJCP's "An Essential Pathology Package for Low- and Middle-Income Countries"

Check out the recent publication from the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, "An Essential Pathology Package for Low- and Middle-Income Countries"!

This publication reviews the current status of pathology services in LMIC's and provides guidance to policy makers as countries move toward universal health care systems. Four of the authors, Mike Wilson, John Flanigan, Ken Fleming, and Modupe Kuti, are ASAP members!

Access the article here: http://ajcp.oxfordjournals.org/…/ear…/2016/10/18/ajcp.aqw143

Happenings

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ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:

Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.

The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.