Table 1

Summary of the 12 RDTs reported on the MoH 706 tool of Kenya’s health management information system (DHIS2).

RDTsReporting facilities, No. (%)*
2018–2020 (n=5251)
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2018 (n=4381)2019 (n=4656)2020 (n=4863)
HIV||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 89.6%3779 (86.3%)4045 (86.9%)4291 (88.2%)
Venereal disease research laboratory|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 88.7%3779 (86.3%)4045 (86.9%)4300 (88.4%)
Urine chemistry|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 87.8%3790 (86.5%)4027 (86.5%)4265 (87.7%)
Human chorionic gonadotropin||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 85.7%3582 (81.8%)3890 (83.5%)4158 (85.5%)
Blood sugar|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 85.4%3559 (81.2%)3827 (82.2%)4120 (84.7%)
Malaria RDT||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82.8%3268 (74.6%)3432 (73.7%)3396 (69.8%)
Helicobacter pylori|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 81.7%3355 (76.6%)3640 (78.2%)3851 (79.2%)
Blood group|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 80.4%3346 (76.4%)3549 (76.2%)3828 (78.7%)
HB estimation||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 78.7%3184 (72.7%)3468 (74.5%)3673 (75.5%)
Rheumatoid factor||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 78.6%3259 (74.4%)3523 (75.7%)3603 (74.1%)
Brucella||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 70.5%2816 (64.3%)2973 (63.9%)2990 (61.5%)
CHEW malaria RDTs†|||||||||||||||||||||||||| 50.9%712 (54.8%)707 (52.0%)694 (49.0%)
  • (n) represents the total number of reporting facilities.

  • *The proportion of reporting facilities per RDT was computed per year and across 36 months as the number of facilities reporting RDT out of those reporting test volumes >0 (reporting facilities).

  • †CHEW malaria RDTs the denominator (n) is the number of reporting facilities across 10 western Kenya counties.

  • CHEW, Community Health Extension Worker; DHIS2, District Health Information System; HB, haemoglobin; MoH, Ministry of Health; RDT, rapid diagnostic test.