Access to high-quality, evidence-based, affordable health services is key for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including for sexual and reproductive health. Universal access to laboratory services is essential to ensure that concerned populations can avoid the adverse health and socioeconomic consequences of sexual and reproductive ill health. The WHO laboratory manual for the examination of human semen and sperm – cervical …

Foreword Achieving, maintaining and improving accuracy, timeliness and reliability are major challenges for health laboratories. Countries worldwide committed themselves to build national capacities for the detection of, and response to, public health events of international concern when they decided to engage in the International Health Regulations implementation process. Only sound management of quality in health laboratories will enable countries to …