Abstract: One of the greatest challenges faced by many underdeveloped countries in the quest for malaria control is limited access to proper and effective diagnosis. This has been compounded by wars, population movement, endemicity of the infection and drug resistance. Although microscopy has remained the gold standard for the diagnosis of this infection, it is costly, time and labour intensive and requires great expertise. This study was conducted to compare the performance of the gold standard microscopy with the Pf-HRP2 rapid diagnostic tests with the view of the later serving as alternative to the former especially in endemic areas where experts microscopistsare lacking. A total of 100 individuals were enrolled in this study. Out of this 23(23%) persons tested positive with HRP-2 Antigen Detection Assay while 53 (53%) persons tested positive with microscopy method.
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