Last Updated: 08/07/2026

Evaluating interventions to improve test, treat and track (T3) malaria strategy among over the counter medicine sellers (OTCMS) in some rural communities of Fanteakwa North district, Ghana

Objectives

To improve the implementation of the T3 strategy in the informal healthcare sector using a number of intervention tools that could be scaled-up easily at the national level.

Principal Institution

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Ghana

Principal Investigators / Focal Persons

Collins K Ahorlu
Benjamin Abuaku

Rationale and Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that anybody who is suspected to have malaria should be tested before treated and followed up. This is to ensure that malaria medicines are given to only people who truly have malaria. In Africa, many people with symptoms that look like malaria visit drug shops, and are not tested but given malaria medicines. This means that people with other diseases that look like malaria are given malaria medicines when they do not need them. This study aims at improving the way drug sellers take care of people who visit their shops with signs and symptoms that look like malaria. The study findings will help the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and other partners adopt measures that will ensure that only people with confirmed malaria receive malaria medicines in drug shops.

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