ASLM

ASLM (African Society for Laboratory Medicine) is a pan-African professional society that represents laboratory medicine professionals across Africa, founded in 2011. Its membership spans clinical laboratory scientists, pathologists, and public health laboratory specialists across the continent. ASLM works to strengthen laboratory systems, accreditation pathways, and workforce capacity, and operates as a key civil-society partner to Africa CDC, WHO AFRO, and the US CDC's Global Health Security Agenda programmes. It publishes the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine and hosts the biennial Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC), which has become a major convening forum for continental health policy.

ASLM co-launched ARILAC (Advancing Regional Integrated Laboratory Capacity for AMR Control) in Addis Ababa on 6 May 2026 alongside Africa CDC and the European Union, through the Team Europe Initiative on Sustainable Health Security. ASLM's role is to provide the professional network and technical standards for building functional AMR surveillance labs in the programme's 8 target AU member states. The programme addresses the structural gap where only 1.3% of more than 50,000 assessed labs in 14 African countries Conduct routine AMR testing. ASLM's accreditation frameworks and workforce training capacity are central to translating ARILAC's four-year funding into operational diagnostic capability.