Flow Cytometric Solutions for Remote Rural Locations
Are you ready to partake in a journey of clinical laboratory improvising where the instrument enhancement may lead to a future technology path well beyond our imagination?  Read the thought provoking article by Frank Mandy.

QASI
Learn about the QASI international quality assurance program, currently operated by the National Laboratory for HIV Immunology of the Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa, and how it assists with CD4 enumeration in resource limited countries. 

ASCP / CDC PEPFAR Program
The Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was initiated in 2003 to diagnosis and treat HIV/AIDS patients in resource-limited countries.  Follow I-CCS members David Grier and Paul Wallace as they travel to PEPFAR countries with ASCP Global Outreach and the CDC to provide laboratory training. 

Journal Highlights
Key articles on CD4 testing published in Cytometry Part B (Clinical Cytometry).

Discussion Forum
“After reading the last CCS newsletter I have a question for the ICCS leadership.  Recently CCS got renamed ICCS, yet the next 4 meetings are being held in the U.S.  Why the American centric meeting planning when the goal behind the name change is to be recognized as an international society.”  See how I-CCS President Brent Wood responds in the Discussion Forum.

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