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Fig. 3

From: Routine data for malaria morbidity estimation in Africa: challenges and prospects

Fig. 3

Ideal malaria routine data flow. The ideal system would require all fever cases occurring at community-level use health facilities and that a complete geo-coded master health facility list. Fever cases presenting at health facilities are then tested for malaria under the Test.Treat.Track (T3) initiative. Thus, appropriate diagnostics or laboratory tools should be available at the health facility, the quality of laboratory testing should be highest, there should be no drug stock-outs and the treatment of fever case should be based on the national guidelines at the health facility. Finally, all confirmed malaria cases at the health facility should be recorded accurately and reported promptly to the national surveillance system such as DHIS2

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