Dr. Shyam Sundar Nandi from the National Institute of Virology has created a rapid mpox testing kit that delivers results in ...

Testing for mpox, which has killed more than 1,000 people on the continent in 2024, is insufficient. Read more at ...

U.S Ambassador to Uganda, William Popp, hands over a consignment of Mpox test kits to Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health, at the ministry headquarters in Kampala. COURTESY PHOTO/U.S MISSION.

The edition includes the PCR detection kit (UM6P-MASCIR MPOX qPCR 1.0), manufactured by Moldiag, Morocco. «The DAC reviewed ...

The United States government through its public health agency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has given Uganda 5,000 laboratory test kits to support Mpox diagnosis as cases ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC has recommended the first locally manufactured real-time polymerase chain reaction ...

This brings the total to 10,000 test kits donated by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention since the outbreak of mpox in Uganda. As of October 30, 2024, Uganda had recorded a ...

It procured and delivered PCR and genome sequencing test kits, GeneXpert cartridges. It also trained them on specimen collection and transportation, biosafety and biosecurity, and molecular testing ...

In the clinic, mpox symptoms such as fever ... further reducing costs. A single boxed kit could be used to test for a variety ...