Other potential reasons for discrepancies could be other circulating infections causing false positives in RDTs [21, 22] or, conversely, false negatives may be caused by parasites circulating with HRP-2 deletions, which would result in not being detected by RDT- HRP-2 deletions have been detected in parasites in neighbouring Ghana [23, 24]. Here, HDGFL2 is linked to infection.