If you have been to a hospital for malaria testing, the doctor must have drawn blood from your finger to do the test. Well, all this will be in the past now.
A Ugandan inventor has developed a device that tests malaria without drawing blood.
The device, called matibabu which means "treatment" in Swahili detects malaria signs by shinning a red beam of light on one's finger.
The red beam can detect changes in the colour, shape and concentration of red blood cells - all of which are affected by malaria. After that the diagnosis is given via a mobile phone within a minute.
Brian Gitta, 24 has won the Royal Academy of Engineerings Africa Price for the device. Mr Gitta decided to develop the device after blood test failed to diagnose his own malaria.
Mr Sekitto who is also part of the matibabu team, told the BBC's Focus on Africa that malaria vaccine has been the leading cause of death in Uganda and that it took more than for blood tests to diagnose Mr Gitta with malaria.
"[Gitta] brought up the idea: 'Why can't we find a new way of using the skills we have found in computer science, of diagnosing a disease without having to prick somebody?" Mr Sekitto said as reported by BBC.
The team hopes that the device will be one day be used to diagnose malaria in a better way across the continent