Transformation of Laboratory Services
CMLF plays a critical role in leading the transformation of laboratory services within the Caribbean to achieve quality assured diagnostics and laboratory capacity that are critical to strong economies and to withstanding current and future public health threats.
Leadership and Technical Training
CMLF staff have tested and proven expertise in development and delivery of innovative competency-based training for building laboratory management, supervision and quality management skills within the Caribbean region and other resource limited areas.
Project Implementation
CMLF has a demonstrated track record of successful project management, on-time and within budget project delivery. As a not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) CMLF is well respected regionally and internationally and has a history of regional and international partnerships.
Caribbean Med Labs Foundation
The Caribbean Med Labs Foundation, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is a non-governmental organisation established in response to a request from CARICOM Ministers of Health in June 2007.
The Ministers had requested continuation of the regional effort aimed at building and sustaining the highest quality medical laboratory services through an independent self-sustaining mechanism.
CMLF Core Objectives
The Caribbean Med Labs Foundation assists regional populations and governments as well as public and private laboratories by:
Laws and Regulations
Advocating at the highest levels for the necessary laws and regulations for licensing of laboratories to ensure that standards are met;Promoting Development
Promoting the development of a regional environment supportive of high quality medical and public health laboratory services and blood safety;Mobilising Resources
Mobilising resources for strengthening medical and public health laboratories and stakeholder institutions;Collaboration with Stakeholders
Collaboration with our stakeholders is central to our philosophy and success.CMLF News
News, Features, Multimedia

A call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV self-testing
PRESS RELEASE As COVID-19 reduces access to HIV testing services, AIDS response partners call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV...

COVID causes reduction in HIV/AIDS testing
A 69 per cent reduction in facility and community-based HIV testing services due to COVID-19 is putting people with undiagnosed...

HIV/Syphilis Rapid Testing Portal
As we celebrate World AIDS Day in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, CMLF launches its new website and...

Celebrating World AIDS Day
To celebrate World AIDS day 2020, CMLF has put together the following:...

CMLF’s critical role in the Region’s COVID-19 response
Contributor: Valerie Wilson, Director, Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the world; laboratories are not immune to...

Webinar on HIV Self Testing
This CVC webinar was on HIV Self Testing. It was facilitated by Valerie Wilson, Director of Caribbean Med Labs Foundation....
Other News
News, Features, Multimedia

WHO Guidance for SARS-Co-V 2 RT-PCR testing
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that use real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for detection of SARS-CoV-2 Product type: Nucleic acid testing...

World AIDS Day 2020 Global solidarity, resilient services
The world has made significant progress since the late 1990s, but HIV remains a major global public health issue. And...

‘Nobody Sees Us’: Testing-Lab Workers Strain Under Demand
Laboratory technologists have been working nonstop to help the nation diagnose an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases.. In March, April...

WHO pre-qualifies COVID 19 Ag Tests
List of EUL products eligible for procurement: Instruction for Use (IFUs) Source: WHO...

Free fatty acid binding pocket in the locked structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Abstract COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), represents a global crisis. Key to SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic development is unraveling...

WHO Guidance on Use of Rapid Antigen Tests for SARS-CoV-2
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratories have been using nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), such as real time...
Corporate Information
In seeking to transform the delivery of medical laboratory services in the Caribbean region, the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation achieved all of it's deliverables.

Our Objectives
Caribbean countries face multiple and complex challenges, from the severe epidemic of chronic diseases (including diabetes, heart disease, cancers and...

About CMLF
The Caribbean Med Labs Foundation, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is a non-governmental organisation established in response to a request...
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