National HIV Reference Lab
NHRL is a unit under the division of the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) within the Department of Laboratory services. It was established by the Ministry of Health in 2003 to provide oversight of Laboratory HIV Quality Assurance services for the National HIV Program – NASCOP. The NHRL was the first government laboratory to be accredited in the country in 2012 under ISO 15189:2012 for three scopes: Viral Load (VL), Early infant diagnosis (EID) and serology and ISO 17043:2010 for two scopes: VL, EID. NHRL attained WHO HIV DR Accreditation in 2021 as the first government public health laboratory to achieve such.
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