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| Title |
Use and limitations of malaria rapid diagnostic testing by community health workers in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-8-308 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael Hawkes, Jean Paul Katsuva, Claude K Masumbuko |
| Abstract |
Accurate and practical malaria diagnostics, such as immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), have the potential to avert unnecessary treatments and save lives. Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) represent a potentially valuable human resource for expanding this technology to where it is most needed, remote rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa with limited health facilities and personnel. This study reports on a training programme for CHWs to incorporate RDTs into their management strategy for febrile children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a tropical African setting ravaged by human conflict. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 191 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 183 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 16% |
| Researcher | 23 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 9% |
| Other | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 44 | 23% |
| Unknown | 35 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 56 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 16% |
| Unknown | 46 | 24% |