{"id":12749,"date":"2025-10-17T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/17\/advancing-tb-diagnostic-validation-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:23:30","slug":"advancing-tb-diagnostic-validation-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/17\/advancing-tb-diagnostic-validation-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing TB Diagnostic Validation in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 October 2025 <strong>Dr Muhammad Ayyaz Mustafa<\/strong>, Deputy National Coordinator, chaired a meeting with key stakeholders from Mercy Corps to progress TB diagnostic validation and screening tool improvements under the national response framework.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion centered on aligning validation protocols, ensuring quality assurance, and harmonising data sharing between government programmes and implementing partners. Participants examined practical steps for pilot testing screening algorithms and diagnostic devices to meet national standards.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders emphasised the importance of integrating validated tools into routine screening to improve case detection and streamline referral pathways across Pakistan. The focus on TB diagnostic validation aims to reduce delays in diagnosis and make screening more effective in both urban and rural settings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Muhammad Ayyaz Mustafa<\/strong> highlighted collaboration, capacity building, and clear operational timelines as priorities, while Mercy Corps representatives outlined technical support options and coordination mechanisms. The meeting concluded with plans to form joint working groups to oversee pilots, monitor results, and report progress to the national response framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Dr Muhammad Ayyaz Mustafa and Mercy Corps advance TB diagnostic validation to strengthen national screening tools and Pakistan&#8217;s response framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}