Malaria rapid diagnostic tests in community pharmacies in Rwanda: availability, knowledge of community pharmacists, advantages, and disadvantages of licensing their use

Table 3 Availability and request of malaria rapid Diagnostic test (n = 200)

Variables	Categories	Frequency (n)	Percent (%)
Availability of m-RDT in the stock during the study period	Yes	54	27
Availability of m-RDT in the stock during the study period	No	146	73
Requested to sell m-RDT in last week	Yes	138	69
Requested to sell m-RDT in last week	No	62	31
Frequency of requests to sell m-RDT in a week	1 time	39	28
	2–3 times	48	35
	4–5 times	11	8
	More than 5 times	40	29
Requested to perform m-RDT prior to dispensing antimalarial medicines	Yes	118	59
	No	82	41

N/A not applicable, N Frequency, m-RDT malaria rapid diagnostic test, % percentage

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