Expanding access to malaria diagnosis and treatment

This framework considers diagnostic methods and antimalarial drugs to be public goods. To achieve this change in malaria operations, it will be necessary to involve many more actors from the health system, affected communities, and society in general in malaria diagnosis and treatment. This strategy calls for an expansion of the diagnosis-treatment (DT) component of the Diagnosis, Treatment, Investigation, and Response (DT-IR) strategy that PAHO and partners in the Region have been promoting for malaria elimination in the Americas.