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 UPDF launches first infectious disease surveillance laboratory

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has launched its first-ever infectious disease surveillance laboratory in Uganda which is also the first of its kind among the armed forces in the East African region. According to a press statement from UPDF, the surveillance biosafety level 2-plus laboratory located in Mbuya is UPDF’s strategic asset with an enshrined role of force health protection where the known and anticipated threats and hazards of the troops must be known and mitigated. The Public Health laboratory, which uses molecular and immunological platforms will receive and analyze samples from over twenty sentinel sites in Uganda, and other areas where UPDF has troops like Somalia, Equatoria Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lieutenant General Sam Okiding, the […]

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