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Although knowledge of HIV positivity is a necessary step towards engagement in HIV care, more than one quarter of HIV‐positive Malawians remain unaware of their HIV status. Testing the sexual partners, guardians and children of HIV‐positive persons (index case finding or ICF) is a promising way of identifying HIV‐positive persons unaware of their HIV status. ICF can be passive where the HIV‐positive individual (index) invites a partner (or contact) for HIV testing or active where a health provider assists the index with partner notification and offers HIV testing to the partner. Strategies to improve passive ICF have not been thoroughly studied. We describe the impact of a behavioural skills‐building training to enhance healthcare workers’ (HCWs) implementation of Malawi's passive ICF programme.