Guides, manuals, and implementation tools for malaria rapid diagnostic tests
Overview
FIND and partners, such as WHO, TDR, USAID, URC, Malaria Consortium, U.S. CDC, Johns Hopkins, Unitaid, PSI, Unicef, RBM, PMI, have produced several tools to improve the use, implementation, and post-market surveillance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs). These materials are aimed at implementers of mRDTs, mainly at the community and small clinic levels.
The tools include training manuals, job aids, and results interpretation guides for generic RDTs, but also for specific RDT products, adapted by FIND at the request of national malaria control programmes and NGOs. Transport and storage guides are available with practical recommendations shown in a simple and pictorial manner. A troubleshooting guide, an RDT problems protocol and a job aid for the use of Positive Control Wells have also been developed to help with verifying, addressing and managing potential quality problems, hereby supporting post-market surveillance processes in endemic countries.
Generic P. falciparum-only RDT training materials
- Training manual on the use of generic Pf RDTs for falciparum malaria diagnosis | French version
- Generic P. falciparum RDTs job aid (using capillary tube) | French version
- Generic P. falciparum RDTs job aid (using loop)
- Generic P. falciparum RDTs job aid (using pipette)
- Malaria generic P. falciparum RDTs results guide | French version
- Quizzes & answer keys | French version
Generic Pf-Pan RDT training
- Training manual on the use of generic Pf-Pan malaria RDTs
- Generic Pf-Pan RDTs job aid (capillary tube)
- Generic Pf-Pan RDTs job aid (loop)
- Generic Pf-Pan RDTs job aid (pipette)
- Generic Pf-Pan RDTs results guide
- Quizzes & answer keys
Generic Pan-Pf RDT training
- Training manualon the use of generic Pan-Pf malaria RDTs
- Generic Pan-Pf RDTs job aid (capillary tube)
- Generic Pan-Pf RDTs job aid (loop)
- Generic Pan-Pf RDTs job aid (pipette)
- Generic Pan-Pf RDTs results guide
- Quizzes & answer keys
Product-specific RDT training materials
- CareStart Malaria HRP2 (Pf) Test: Training manual | Job aid | Results guide | Quizzes & answer keys
- First Response Malaria HRP2: Training manual | Job aid | Results guide | Quizzes & answer keys
- ICT Malaria Pf Cassette: Training manual | Job aid | Results guide | Quizzes & answer keys
- Paracheck Pf Device Rapid Test for Malaria: Training manual | Job aid | Results guide | Quizzes & answer keys
- SD Bioline Malaria Ag Pf : Training manual | Job aid
Other
- Protocol on responding to problems with malaria RDTs
- Troubleshooting guide for supervisors overseeing users of malaria RDTs | French | Swahili
- Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health clinics
- Transporting, storing and handling malaria rapid diagnostic test at central and peripheral storage facilities
- How to use PCWs to check malaria RDTs
- Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: An implementation guide