PMI Impact Malaria Madagascar: Advanced Malaria Diagnostic Refresher Training (aMDRT), 2021

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This data asset contains data from IM advanced MDRT. IM supported the NMCP to improve the performance of laboratory technicians in malaria microscopy according to WHO guidelines through a five-day advance MDRT. This training also allowed to prepare the participants to have their best performance at External Competency Assessment for Malaria Microscopists (ECAMM). The training included building skills theory and diagnostics procedures for malaria, parasite detection (PD), species identification (ID), and parasite counting (PC), as well as slide preparation, slide staining, use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), biosafety, microscope maintenance, and improvement of QA measures according to national guidelines.

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21 This dataset contains data from IM advanced MDRT in Madagascar held in October 2021. IM Madagascar supported a five-day advance MDRT session for 19 laboratory technicians from the 13 regions and 16 districts of Madagascar from the centres hospitalier regional (CHR, regional hospitals), centres hospitaliers universitaires (CHU, university hospitals), centre hospitalier de district (CHD, district hospitals), Institut Pasteur Madagascar (IPM), NMCP, Laboratoire de référence régionale (LRR, regional reference laboratory) covering both the public and private sectors. https://datahub.usaid.gov/d/8phn-tnyy

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  • mdrt
  • malaria
  • laboratory-technicians
  • training
  • madagascar

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