Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has engaged in rapid marketing of its new malaria testing kit as the agency seeks approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr Sophie Uyoga, a ...

A multicentre study conducted by researchers from West Africa and the UK evaluated a portable molecular malaria test that can detect asymptomatic and submicroscopic infections in under 45 minutes, ...

Roche has received Food and Drug Administration approval for the first molecular test to screen U.S. blood donors for malaria, the company said Tuesday. In 2022, the FDA recommended preventing people ...

At the moment, testing for malaria is done using slides in laboratories. It takes up to one hour to obtain results. However, the new malaria diagnostic kit gives results in just 10 minutes. "The new ...