EAC REGIONAL NETWORK OF PUBLIC HEALTH REFERENCE LABORATORIES FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (EAC-RNPHRL-CD) PROJECT

We help bring awareness to disease outbreaks in East Africa.

The East African Community (EAC), in collaboration with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), are implementing a German Government funded project entitled “EAC Regional Network of Public Health Reference Laboratories for Communicable Diseases”, which aims to establish a sustainable laboratory infrastructure and response network across East Africa.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

To strengthen capacity of EAC Partner States existing National Public Reference Laboratories to detect and respond to pathogens of biosafety levels 3 and 4 (Phase I), AMR surveillance (Phase II) and data sharing through the mobile laboratories.

MOBILE LABORATORIES

Phase I of the Project procured and deployed nine (9) complete Mobile Laboratories in the EAC region. Each mobile lab is fully equipped with portable PCR machines, ELISA machines, Gloveboxes, mobile vehicles and electrical power supply system.

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Phase II of the project is set to strengthen the capacities of the EAC Partner States to respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases, including bacterial diseases and cross-border epidemics with particular reference to Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance in the region.

EAC Regional Network of Public Health Laboratories advances in strengthening health emergency preparedness

EAC Mobile Laboratories Training on Antimicrobial Resistance and Monkeypox Diagnosis
EAC Mobile Laboratories Practical Laboratory Training & Field Simulation Exercise (FSX) at Namanga, Kenya/Tanzania Border - Full Documentary

EAC Mobile Laboratories Practical Laboratory Training - Training of Trainers (TOT)
EAC Mobile Laboratories Practical Laboratory Training - Handling Infectious Specimen

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PROJECT GALLERY

PROJECT DOCUMENTS

EAC Mobile Labs Project
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Project Fact sheet 1
Category: Mobile Laboratories
Type: Fact Sheet
EAC Mobile Labs Project
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Project Fact sheet 2
Category: Mobile Laboratories
Type: Fact Sheet

PROJECT JOURNALS

Mobile laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics: what Europe could learn from the East African Community to assure trade in times of border closures
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Category: Mobile Laboratories Journals
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Tag: Mobile Labs
The East African Community (EAC) mobile laboratory networks in Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan—from project implementation t
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Category: Mobile Laboratories Journals
Type: Journal
Tag: Mobile Labs

EAC MOBILE LABS NETWORK

NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES

OUR PARTNERS

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine

KfW Development Bank

EAC REGIONAL NETWORK OF PUBLIC HEALTH REFERENCE LABORATORIES FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (EAC-RNPHRL-CD) PROJECT