Global survey of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) sales, procurement and lot verification practices: assessing the use of the WHO–FIND Malaria RDT Evaluation Programme (2011–2014)

Table 2 Annual coverage of the lot testing programme (referred to reported RDT sales)

	Evaluated by lot testing^a	Delivered (reported sales)^b	Percentage of market coverage^c (%)
2011
Lots	334	1310	25
RDTs	68,842,861	121,442,342	57
2012
Lots	480	1525	31
RDTs	105,454,077	172,699,367	61
2013
Lots	908	1708	53
RDTs	208,914,128	254,209,335	82
2014
Lots	782	1752	45
RDTs	211,334,091	297,731,435	71
(2011–14)
Lots	2504	6295	40
RDTs	594,545,158	846,082,479	70

^aNumber of lots or RDTs that underwent the WHO-FIND malaria RDT lot testing, as per the lot testing database
^bNumber of lots or RDTs sold as per the survey data gathered from the RDT manufacturers
^cCoverage of the Lot Testing programme, estimated by calculating the percentage of lots or RDTs that have been lot tested, relative to the total number of lots or RDTs sold in a given year

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