Africa: WHO Director-General’s Opening Remarks At the Signing Ceremony for the Establishment of a WHO Collaborating Centre – 28 August 2023

Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,

It is a great honour for me to be here to officially designate the Botswana National HIV Reference Laboratory at the National Health Laboratory as a WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Drug Resistance and other diagnostic testing.

In addition to HIV, the centre’s mandate will include diseases such as viral hepatitis, sexual transmitted infections, tuberculosis, cancer, and emerging and re-emerging diseases.

This new WHO collaborating centre joins a network…