Diagnosing and Treating Malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

Changing the way that malaria is diagnosed could help to revolutionize health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). To this end, the Ivanhoe Fionet Partnership introduced new technology into the DRC to improve the quality of malaria data and diagnoses. The project brought Chemonics together with Fio Corporation, a health care technology company, and Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian mineral exploration and development company. As part of the project, health facilities in the Haut Katanga and Lualaba provinces received 300 Deki Readers, intelligent devices developed by Fio to support health workers in improving the accuracy of diagnostic testing. The Deki Readers also make data immediately available to public health officials. These efforts helped health workers improve their adherence to treatment guidelines and helped DRC better manage its approach to malaria.