Health care provider practices in diagnosis and treatment of malaria in rural communities in Kisumu County, Kenya.

Wilfred Ouma OtamboJulius O OlumehKevin O OchwedoEdwin O MagomereIsaiah DebrahCollins OumaPatrick OnyangoHarrysone AtieliWolfgang R MukabanaChloe WangMing-Chieh LeeAndrew K GithekoGuofa ZhouJohn GithureJames KazuraGuiyun Yan

Published in: Malaria journal (2022)

The disparity in malaria diagnosis at health facilities with many slide positives reported as negatives and high presumptive treatment of slide negative cases, necessitates augmenting microscopic with RDTs and calls for Ministry of Health strengthening supportive infrastructure to be in compliance with treatment guidelines of Test, Treat, and Track to improve malaria case management.

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