'World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office'
Abstract
1. Executive summary -- 2. Background -- 3. Objectives -- 4. Data management -- 5. Materials and methods -- 6. Quality assurance -- 7. Ethical considerations -- 8. Data analysis -- 9. Laboratory versus field-based malaria RDT evaluations -- 10. Results -- 11. Heat stability -- 12. Ease of use description -- 13. Discussion of key findings -- 14. Additional measures to ensure quality and utility of RDT testing -- 15. Conclusions -- 16. References -- -- Annex 1: Characteristics of rapid malaria malaria tests in the evaluation -- Annex 2: Malaria RDT guide to results interpretation -- Annex 3: Phase 1 results -- Annex 4: Phase 2 results -- Annex 5: Example algorithm for selecting a malaria RDT -- Annex 6: Introducing RDT-based malaria diagnosis into national programmesThis report, which presents the results of the first round of WHO product testing of malaria antigen-detecting RDTs, was completed in November 2008 in collaboration with FIND, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...--P. 1.Also available online at: as an Acrobat .pdf file (2.77 MB, 110 p.
