Testing times: trends in availability, price, and market share of malaria diagnostics in the public and private healthcare sector across eight sub-Saharan African countries from 2009 to 2015

Testing times: trends in availability, price, and market share of malaria diagnostics in the public and private healthcare sector across eight sub-Saharan African countries from 2009 to 2015

Abstract Background The World Health Organization guidelines have recommended that all cases of suspected malaria should receive a confirmatory test with microscopy or a malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT), however evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) illustrates that only one-third of children un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: ACTwatch Group, Kara Hanson, Catherine Goodman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Subjects:
Malaria test
Rapid diagnostic test
Microscopy
Price
Market share
Availability
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-1829-5

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