Regular maintenance, repair and effective monitoring are some of the aspects known to increased utilization of medical laboratory testing platforms. In this session, presented by Eliakim Nyandiko, and Indira Soundiram from Cepheid and, Prof. Moses Joloba, a Professor and Dean at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, we discussed how the GeneXpert systems are being supported on the continent, and their testing capacity optimization. Please follow the links here to view the recorded ECHO session and download presentation slides.