Our Laboratory
Dedicated to Providing Quality Research Laboratory Services. SAMRI processes tailored to best fit needs, and we will ensure all questions are answered & help to define your goals.
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute (SAMRI) is committed to ensuring the best and globally accepted standards of our products from our credible partners. Whatever is out there from our laboratory is researched & tested to curb counterfeit in the health sector.
We aim at manufacturing life-saving immuno-biologicals, which are in shortage in Uganda and imported at high prices. Thereafter, several life-saving biologicals are manufactured at prices affordable to the common man and in abundance, with the result that the country has made self-sufficient for Tetanus Anti-toxin and Anti-snake Venom serum, followed by DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) group of Vaccines and then later on MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) group of vaccines.
Our Service
The Philanthropic philosophy of the company exists to bring down the prices of newer vaccines such as Hepatitis-B vaccine, Combination vaccine etc., so that not only Uganda's, but the entire under-privileged children of the world are protected from birth onwards.
Vaccination
In Uganda, from 3 January 2020 to 6:27pm CEST, 6 July 2021, there have been 84,116 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,193 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 July 2021, a total of 937,417 vaccine doses have been administered
Research
Serum Africa Medical Research Institute - SAMRI is as Uganda's No. 1 biotech company, manufacturing highly specialized life saving biologicals like vaccines using cutting edge genetic & cell based technologies, antisera & other medical specialties
Distribution
With the latest technology in high fragile medico handling, we offer transportation of the vaccines and other medicines in the right temperatures and intact conditions
Testing
Serum tests are performed by drawing blood from a patient and spinning it down to separate the cellular components from the liquid serum, which contains soluble analytes such as hormones
Latest Industry News
Everything happening in the medical world on the African continent as it unfolds in the latest news and events. Know about how African medical fraternity is responding to the most pressing health issues
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THE FIRST EVER MULTI-ANTIGEN VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
Harare, 1 July 2021 – UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and WHO have partnered with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to launch a new vaccine campaign introducing typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into the routine immunisation schedule across the country.
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FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE AGREEMENT TO SUPPLY AU
The agreement will supply up to 220 million single-dose vaccines by 2022 as part of UNICEF’s broader support for the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) to help provide vaccines for the 55 AU Member States
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POPULATION BASED SURVEY ON COVID-19
Kampala – 16 March 2021- The Ministry of Health has embarked on a population based sero survey study for COVID-19 in Uganda as part of the national response to the pandemic. The survey seeks to establish the magnitude of the virus in Uganda.