Table 1 Capacity building and training activities within WANETAM
Year | Workshop title | Content | Duration | Location | Number of trainees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) | Principles of GCLP | 1Â week | MRC | 18 |
2011 | Basic Mycobacteriology | Microscopy | 4Â weeks | MRC | 18 |
Isolation of mycobacteria | |||||
Solid and liquid culture | |||||
Storage of isolates | |||||
2013 | IATA Certification Training | Shipment of isolates | 2Â days | Benin | 23 |
2012 | Molecular Epidemiology of MDR-TB in West Africa | Boiled lysate/genomic DNA extraction | 2Â weeks | MRC | 18 |
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) | |||||
Hain MTBDRplus | |||||
Spoligotyping | |||||
2013 | Rapid Detection, Rapid Action: TB diagnosis with GeneXpert | Background on RT-PCR testing | 1Â week | MRC | 18 |
GeneXpert technology and maintenance | |||||
Practical Xpert MTB/RIF | |||||
Result interpretation | |||||
2013 | From Bench to Genome, a Simplified Perspective | Bioinformatics course | 1Â day | MRC | 18 |
2014 | Data Analysis and Publishing | Statistics | 1Â week | MRC | 18 |
Critical appraisal of data | |||||
Writing skills | |||||
2010–2014 | 12 Visits to Partner Sites | Customised training | 8 weeks | WANETAM sites | – |