On March 13th, 14th and 15th, the Katyavala Bwila University's Faculty of Medicine hosted a Malaria Laboratorial Diagnosis training program for health technicians in Benguela province. This CISA backed program was designed to improve and build on the quality of malaria laboratorial diagnostic testing and falls within the scope of a study evaluating the impact of training on the quality of malaria diagnostic testing through optical microscope based methods.