Medical laboratory scientists in Ghana are questioning why the government is yet to make functional the over 100 GeneXpert machines that can aid in sample testing of COVID-19. In an address to update ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to emphasise the critically important role testing plays in curbing the rampaging spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19). It describes testing as a ...

On November 4, 2022, the United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), donated 126 cutting-edge GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) testing machines worth U.S. $3 ...

Within a week of the installation of three more GeneXpert machines for faster detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis, another 17 cases of multidrug-resistant TB have been diagnosed. "These machines ...

Nunavut is now able to analyze more COVID-19 tests within the territory — and more quickly — now that a GeneXpert machine is approved and ready for use in Rankin Inlet. This means restrictions can be ...

The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Akwa Ibom state branch has advised the state government to upscale existing genexpert (tuberculosis) testing machines in the state ...

CHENNAI: Chennai corporation has procured ten GeneXpert tuberculosis detection machines from National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) as part of the ‘Stop TB Partnership’ programme.The ...

A North West Queensland mine has spent $45,000 on a COVID-19 testing machine for the community — despite the area having no cases of the coronavirus. The newest GeneXpert machine can return a swab ...

Ready. Truck drivers queue up to be tested for Covid-19 at Malaba border post on April 29. FILE PHOTO. The recently installed geneXpert machine at the Malaba border in Tororo District has been ...

Experts in the health sector have described the move by the federal government to convert the over 300 GeneXpert machines, hitherto, used for the diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, for ...

machines to Ethiopia's honorable Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, at St. Peter's Tuberculosis Hospital. machines given on Friday will make a significant contribution towards the government of ...