Diagnosis

Our Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits gives you the ability to know within 10 minutes if you have malaria or not.

The tests can be taken wherever you are at any time of day or night – in a hotel room, in an office, on a plane, on a beach, or just about anywhere else. You can either test yourself or ask a colleague or friend to help you.

The Step by Step User Guide is extremely easy to follow and administering a test takes no more than a few minutes, with the test result taking only a further 10 minutes. 

RDTs detect the presence of malarial parasites and also separately indicate whether an infection is caused by the most dangerous parasitic strain (plasmodium falciparum) or one of the other three strains (plasmodium vivax, plasmodium ovale or plasmodium malariae). 

RDTs do not detect the severity of parasitic infestation however. Only further microscopic analysis can do that. 

If you test positive you should immediately seek urgent medical treatment to minimise your risk of serious medical complications and possible death. A physician will probably prescribe you with a combination drug therapy containing artemether and lumefantrine (a 24 tablet course of treatment usually branded as either Riamet or Coartem, or also issued sometimes under a generic brand). This treatment will usually eradicate all traces of plasmodium parasitic infection within 3 days.