Malaria Test Positivity Rates in Health Facilities Supported by the Global Fund in Kinshasa City - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.6 No.11, November 2019

Malaria Test Positivity Rates in Health Facilities Supported by the Global Fund in Kinshasa City ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1105662 320 Downloads 981 Views

Author(s)

Gabriel Kwete Woto Kwete¹, Pélagie Babakazo Diambalula², Joël Nkondi Nkiama², Maurice Bope Bope¹, Paul Mansiangi Mankadi²

Affiliation(s)

¹Université Officielle de Mweka, Kasai, Congo.
²Ecole de Santé Publique, Faculté de Médecine de l’Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo.

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study was to determine the positivity rates of malaria screening tests for suspected patients and their impact on the supply of management inputs. It was a cross-sectional descriptive study on the structures of care supported by the Global Fund in the city-province of Kinshasa based on a sample which was constituted of 520 patients. The results showed that out of 520 presumed patients, 36.3% were male and 63.7% female. Regarding age group, 179 children aged 0 to 5 years or 34.4% divided into 3 layers according to the prevalence of the disease in the city of Kinshasa. Five hundred and twenty thick drops (TD) were performed in-cluding 139 positive (26.7%) and 381 negative ones (73.3%). In children, 54 thick drops (TD) out of 179 (30.1%) were positive. The highest positivity rate was observed in stratum 3 (30.2%). From these results, it should be said that excessively high positivity rates lead to an oversupply of input structures resulting in excess stocks and peremptions. The exact positivity rate should be known throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to better plan and monitor malaria control activities.

KEYWORDS

Positivity, Malaria, Test, Suspected Cases, Kinshasa City

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Kwete, G. , Diambalula, P. , Nkiama, J. , Bope, M. and Mankadi, P. (2019) Malaria Test Positivity Rates in Health Facilities Supported by the Global Fund in Kinshasa City. Open Access Library Journal, 6, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1105662.

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