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Expanding Access to Malaria Diagnosis through Retail Shops in Western Kenya : What Do Shop Workers Think?
المؤلفون المشاركون
Koech, Beatrice
Rusk, Andria
Obala, Andrew
O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme
Goodman, Catherine
Naanyu, Violet
المصدر
Malaria Research and Treatment
العدد
المجلد 2013، العدد 2013 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2013)، ص ص. 1-9، 9ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2013-05-21
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
9
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
The common symptoms of malaria reduce the specificity of clinical diagnosis.
Presumptive treatment is conventional but can lead to overdiagnosis of malaria, delay of appropriate treatment, overprescription of antimalarials, and drug resistance.
Routine use of diagnostic tests can address many of these concerns.
Though treatment is often procured from retailers, there is low availability of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (MRDTs), a simple, inexpensive, and accurate diagnostic solution.
We know little about the challenges to expanding access to diagnostics through these outlets.
Methods.
To understand the perceptions of the benefits and challenges to selling rapid diagnostic tests for malaria, we conducted focus group discussions with antimalarial retailers who serve the residents of the Webuye Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in western Kenya.
Results.
Medicine retailers perceived MRDTs to be beneficial to their customers and businesses but also included cost, fear of the tests, risks of self-treatment, and regulatory concerns among the challenges to using and selling MRDTs.
Conclusion.
MRDTs represent a viable approach to increase access to malaria diagnostic testing.
Medicine retailers are eager for MRDTs to be made available to them.
However, certain challenges remain to implementation in retail outlets and should be addressed in advance.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Rusk, Andria& Goodman, Catherine& Naanyu, Violet& Koech, Beatrice& Obala, Andrew& O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme. 2013. Expanding Access to Malaria Diagnosis through Retail Shops in Western Kenya : What Do Shop Workers Think?. Malaria Research and Treatment،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468986
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Rusk, Andria…[et al.]. Expanding Access to Malaria Diagnosis through Retail Shops in Western Kenya : What Do Shop Workers Think?. Malaria Research and Treatment No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468986
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Rusk, Andria& Goodman, Catherine& Naanyu, Violet& Koech, Beatrice& Obala, Andrew& O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme. Expanding Access to Malaria Diagnosis through Retail Shops in Western Kenya : What Do Shop Workers Think?. Malaria Research and Treatment. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-468986
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-468986
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