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Training manuals: Use of artemisinin-based combination therapies and rapid diagnostic tests for home-based management of fever in Uganda

Resource to train community health workers on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests and fever management.

Training manuals from REACT study in Cameroon

The REACT Facilitator and Participant Manuals on improving malaria diagnosis and treatment

Manuels de formation pour l'étude REACT au Cameroun

Les manuels du formateur et du participant REACT sur l'amlioration du dpistage et du traitement du paludisme

Manuels de formation : utilisation des combinaisons thérapeutiques à base d'artémisinine et des tests de dépistage rapide pour la prise en charge à domicile de la fièvre en Ouganda

Ressource pour former les personnels de sant communautaires l'utilisation des tests de dpistage rapide du paludisme et la prise en charge de la fivre.

Manuais de formação: Utilização de terapias combinadas à base de artemisina e de testes de diagnóstico rápido para a gestão domiciliária da febre no Uganda

Recurso para ministrar formao aos funcionrios dos servios de sade comunitrio sobre a utilizao de testes de diagnstico rpido para a malria e sobre a gesto dos estados febris.

Manuais de formação do estudo REACT realizado nos Camarões

Manuais REACT para formadores e participantes sobre a melhoria do diagnstico e tratamento da malria

Peer-reviewed publications

Effectiveness of provider and community interventions to improve treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Nigeria: A cluster randomized controlled trial

PLOS ONE

Basic or enhanced clinician training to improve adherence to malaria treatment guidelines: a cluster-randomised trial in two areas of Cameroon

The Lancet Global Health

News

Malaria testing not a simple fix in the private sector

Drug shops offering quick diagnostic tests for malaria can improve treatment, but regulation by authorities is also needed, researchers warn.

Le gaspillage des antipaludéens par les personnels de santé au Nigéria coûte cher

Les prestataires de santé formés aux tests de dépistage rapide (RDT) du paludisme prescrivent encore des médicaments antipaludéens onéreux

Interactive training halves malaria overdiagnosis and prevents wastage of drugs

Interactive training programmes for health workers could reduce overdiagnosis of malaria by half and help prevent valuable drugs from being wasted on patients who don’t have the

Health workers wasting expensive malaria drugs in Nigeria

Health providers trained to perform malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are still prescribing valuable malaria medicines to patients who do not have malaria, according to new research

Funcionários de saúde na Nigéria desperdiçam medicamentos para a malária dispendiosos

Os fornecedores de serviços de saúde formados para administrar testes de diagnóstico rápido da malária (RDT) continuam a prescrever os valiosos medicamentos