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Table 3 Proportion of children under five with fever receiving any anti-malarial, an ACT, and a blood test for malaria, by treatment sector mix

From: Monitoring fever treatment behaviour and equitable access to effective medicines in the context of initiatives to improve ACT access: baseline results and implications for programming in six African countries

 

N

% received anti-malarial

% received ACT

% received blood test

Benin

    

Public, no private

186

76.3

31.7

9.8

Private, no public

256

43.8

6.6

2.4

χ2(1)=

 

46.82***

47.59***

11.52**

DRC

    

Public, no private

399

67.2

11.1

27.8

Private, no public

1, 465

45.5

4.0

16.0

χ2(1)=

 

63.70***

31.89***

31.18***

Madagascar

    

Public, no private

462

52.2

6.7

21.0

Private, no public

1142

55.2

3.2

1.8

χ2(1)=

 

1.25

9.89

177.83***

Nigeria

    

Public, no private

588

47.6

9.7

14.1

Private, no public

1, 678

35.4

4.0

4.9

χ2(1=)

 

27.97**

27.41***

55.40***

Uganda

    

Public, no private

322

67.5

46.6

21.3

Private, no public

836

54.3

12.2

11.3

χ2(1)=

 

16.97***

161.42***

18.76*

Zambia

    

Public, no private

1, 005

57.2

34.0

48.8

Private, no public

343

16.8

5.5

7.3

χ2(1)=

 

157.83***

98.15***

173.01***

  1. * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01 *** p < 0.001