TABLE 2.
Overall performance of malaria rapid diagnosis test in comparison with standard blood smear microscopy among HIV positive participants.
| RDT result | Standard BSM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Sensitivity | Specificity | PPV | NPV | LR +ve | LR -ve | McNemar test (P value) | |
| Positive | 222 | 28 | 57.5 (52.41–62.50) | 97.3 (96.45–98.35) | 88.8 (84.48–92.03) | 87.1 (85.73–88.35) | 21.29 | 0.44 | < 0.001 |
| Negative | 164 | 1107 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 386 | 1135 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; BSM, blood smear microscopy; LR, likelihood ratio; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, predictive positive value, RDT, rapid diagnostic test.