Table 1 Illustrative quotes for the knowledge of participants about malaria diagnosis and malaria rapid diagnostic test

“It [malaria diagnosis] has two ways: Number one is microscopic, using the microscope, another one is malaria RDT.” (Male)

“We can diagnose [malaria] using microscopy and RDT.” (Female)

“You can also diagnose [malaria] through the symptoms like fever, weakness of joints, vomiting, loss of appetite.” (Female)

“M stands for Malaria, R stands for Rapid, D stands for Diagnostic, T stands for Test.” (Male)

“Clean the finger, prick it, collect blood using pipette, drop inside blood well, add buffer according to maker’s instruction, read after 20 min, you will see two lines”. “There can be three results: positive, negative, invalid.” (Male)