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ajlm-1019	Naidoo, Dhamari; Ihekweazu, Chikwe	Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen laboratory diagnostics – Why access to reliable and affordable diagnostics is key to building resilient laboratory systems	2020		.htm	text/html	2798	124	34	Introduction Challenges in expanding and enhancing yellow fever laboratory diagnostics Building the Lassa fever laboratory network during an epidemic Access to diagnostics and laboratory systems integration Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Dhamari Naidoo WHO Health Emergency Program, Infectious Hazard Management, World Health Organisation, Abuja, Nigeria Chikwe Ihekweazu Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria Citation Naidoo D, Ihekweazu C. Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen laboratory diagnostics – Why access to reliable and affordable diagnostics is key to building resilient laboratory systems. Challenges in expanding and enhancing yellow fever laboratory diagnostics Since 2016, the re-emergence of YF has caused outbreaks in Angola, Brazil, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea and Uganda.8 This prompted the WHO to launch the Eliminating Yellow Fever Epidemics strategy to reduce the risk of YF in high-risk countries through strengthening outbreak detection, response and prevention.9 In 2017, YF re-emerged in Nigeria, 17 years since the last reported case.10 Localised outbreaks continue to be reported and, as of March 2019, Nigeria had seen approximately 4100 suspect cases, of which 139 were confirmed in 17 states throughout the country11 (Figure 1).	cache/ajlm-1019.htm	txt/ajlm-1019.txt