Kenya: Hospitals to Use New TB Testing Kit in War Against Disease

Hospitals will from July use a more advanced technology to detect suspected tuberculosis in patients, the Ministry of Health has said.

This directive will see the ministry introduce the use of GeneXpert, as the first line test to find out if a person is infected with TB.

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