About Us

The National Public Health Laboratories (NPHL) is a division under the Ministry of Health mandated to offer quality assurance services for all clinical laboratory testing in Kenya.

The National HIV Reference Laboratory (NHRL) is a unit under NPHL that oversees all quality assessment (QA) activities in HIV related testing.

Part of QA entails proficiency testing (PT), which offers an objective means of assessing the accuracy, reliability and comparability of lab results.

Facilities are encouraged to enroll for PT programs to help us monitor and improve the quality of their lab results.