Vendor-to-vendor education to improve malaria treatment by private drug outlets in Bungoma District, Kenya

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Percent of outlets having various anti-malarial drugs in stock, by programme status and type of outlet

	Drugs in stock	Informed outlets	Control outlets	All outlets	Signif*
Shops/Kiosks (n = 187)	CQ	22.1	42.0	34.8	.006
Informed = 68	SP	47.1	6.7	21.4	.000
Control = 119	AQ	76.5	79.0	78.1	.689
Pharmacies (n = 46)	CQ	70.4	63.2	67.4	.607
Informed = 27	SP	92.6	94.7	.93.5	.772
Control = 19	AQ	92.6	94.7	93.5	.772
Private clinics (n = 19)	CQ	0.0	53.8	36.8	.024
Informed = 6	SP	100.0	69.2	78.9	.126
Control = 13	AQ	83.3	69.2	73.7	.516
All outlets (n = 252)	CQ	33.7	45.7	40.9	.057
Informed = 101	SP	62.4	23.2	38.9	.000
Control = 151	AQ	81.2	80.1	80.6	.836

Notes: CQ = chloroquine (to be sold by prescription only); SP = sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (first-line drug); AQ = amodiaquine (second-line drug); *From Pearson chi-square.

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