Henry Kavuma

Ministry of Health Laboratory Department convenes at Hotel Africana, Kampala – strengthening collaboration for quality diagnostics across Uganda.

Uganda’s laboratory community came together on 3rd-08-2026 at Hotel Africana, Kampala, for a high-level joint meeting organised by the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) and the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) – two of Uganda’s most critical institutions under the Ministry of Health Laboratory Department. The meeting brought together laboratory professionals, programme managers, and health officials to review progress, align strategies, and strengthen c...
Read More

Beyond the Institution: NTRL Training Members Take TB Diagnostics Skills to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Hands-On Field Experience

Learning in a reference laboratory is one thing. Applying that knowledge in a real hospital setting – where patients depend on accurate results every single day, is something else entirely. That is exactly what a group of trainees at the Uganda Supranational TB Reference Laboratory (SRL)/NTRL experienced when they visited Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital for an immersive field training session covering multiple laboratory sections, with a focused emphasis on TB diagnostics and the GeneXp...
Read More

Uganda SRL / NTRL Hosts Regional External Quality Assurance (EQA) Capacity Building Training

The training focuses on strengthening laboratory quality systems, TB drug susceptibility testing, and the validation of newly WHO-endorsed TB diagnostic technologies in preparation for implementation across participating countries....
Read More