KINTAMPO MALARIA SLIDE BANK: A RESOURCE TO "END MALARIA FOR GOOD"

March 24, 2015 | News release | Reading time: 2 min

KHRC and her partners have developed the Kintampo Malaria Slide Bank as a critical resource to “End Malaria for Good” through malaria diagnosis training and quality assessment. To mark this year’s World Malaria Day, KHRC launches a malaria slide bank as the first malaria slide bank in West Africa. The bank was developed by Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, with support of Hydas World Health, Improving Malaria Diagnosis (IMaD), PATH Malaria Care, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The bank is managed by the Kintampo Health Research Centre.

Accurate diagnosis is important in the control and elimination of malaria. Training of microscopists using validated standardised slide sets has been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy of malaria microscopists. The bank consists of over 6000 slides that consist of slides of different species and densities of malaria parasites. Slides from the bank have been used to train scientists from the Malaria Clinical Trial Alliance (44), Newmont Ghana Limited (16), National Institutes of Health, USA (8), Dodowa Health Research Centre (12), Nouna Health Research Centre, Burkina Faso (5), across Ghana, with sponsorship from the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training / Skills Development Fund (300), across Ghana with sponsorship from National Malaria Control Programme (295).

For further enquiries contact: Malaria Slide Bank