Table 2.
Study design | Authors | Country | Health personnel cadre |
Appropriate treatment (%) |
Positives treated (%) |
Negatives not treated (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RCT | Bisoffi | Burkina Faso | Nurses | 60.7 | 97.7 | 19.0 |
Observational | Masanja | Tanzania | Clinicians | 95.9 | 95.8 | 96.0 |
Bottiaeua | Mozambique | Clinicians | 93.4 | 95.1 | 92.8 | |
Mukanga | Uganda | CHW | 97.8 | 98.6 | 95.2 | |
Manyando | Zambia | Clinicians | 39.7 | 93.9 | 31.4 | |
Cross sectional | Chinkhumba | Malawi | Clinicians and nurses | 86.9 | 98.0 | 57.9 |
Uzochukwu | Nigeria | Clinicians, nurses and CHW | 60.0 | 100.0 | 25.9 | |
Mubi | Tanzania | Clinicians and nurses | 90.5 | 100.0 | 86.5 | |
Shakely | Zanzibar | Clinicians and nurses | 99.9 | 100.0 | 99.9 | |
CRT | Batwala | Uganda | Clinical officers and nurses | 88.5 | 100.0 | 76.6 |
Mukangab | Ghana | CHW | 99.5 | 100.0 | 96.7 | |
Mukangab | Uganda | CHW | 99.0 | 99.9 | 92.4 | |
Mbachamc | Cameroon | Clinicians | 56.1 | 72.1 | 48.1 | |
Mbachamd | Cameroon | Clinicians | 70.8 | 72.9 | 69.4 | |
Mbonye | Uganda | DSV | 98.8 | 99.0 | 98.5 | |
Before and after | Bastiaens | Tanzania | Clinical officers | 90.4 | 100.0 | 90.0 |
CHW community health worker, DSV drug shop vendors
a Excludes missing data
b Excludes Burkina Faso results
c Basic training
d Enhanced training