Amplino may be the ultimate garage project. Three DIY bio-hackers have created a mobile malaria testing kit they claim can identify different strains of malaria with higher accuracy, and at lower ...

Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has engaged in rapid marketing of its new malaria testing kit as the agency seeks approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr Sophie Uyoga, a ...

The government has said it is set to start buying test kits for malaria and HIV from a Kampala-based local manufacturing company, Microhaem Scientifics. This was revealed on November 28 by the Health ...

At the moment, testing for malaria is done using slides in laboratories. It takes up to one hour to obtain results. However, the new malaria diagnostic kit gives results in just 10 minutes. "The new ...