Abstract:
Background
Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in improving access to services
in areas with limited health infrastructure or workforce. Supervision of CHWs by qualified
health professionals is the main link between this lay workforce and the formal health system.
The quality of services provided by lay health workers is dependent on adequate supportive
supervision. It is however one of the weakest links in CHW programs due to logistical
and resource constraints, especially in large scale programs. Interventions such as point of
care testing using malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) require real time monitoring to
ensure diagnostic accuracy. In this study, we evaluated the utility of a mobile health technology
platform to remotely monitor malaria RDT (mRDT) testing by CHWs for quality
improvement
