Got ACTs? Availability, price, market share and provider knowledge of anti-malarial medicines in public and private sector outlets in six malaria-endemic countries

Table 2 Proportion ^(N) of outlets censused with at least one anti-malarial in stock on the day of interview, by sector, outlet type and country¹

	Public Sector/Not-for-Profit				Private Sector							Total
	Public Health Facility	Community Health Worker	Private not-for-profit Health Facility	Total Public/Not-for-Profit	Private Health Facility	Pharmacy	Drug Store	Grocery Store	Other Outlet Types		Total Private	All
									Shop/Kiosk/Bar/Market Stall	Itinerant Provider
Benin	95.4 ⁽¹⁸²⁾	-	91.2 ⁽⁴⁷⁾	94.0 ⁽²²⁹⁾	84.2 ⁽¹¹⁸⁾	96.7 ⁽¹¹⁸⁾	-	30.5 ⁽⁴³³⁾	34.4 ⁽⁶⁹¹⁾	42.7 ⁽⁸¹⁾	36.3 ^{(1, 441)}	39.0 ^{(1, 670)}
DRC	96.8 ⁽¹¹¹⁾	-	97.2 ⁽³³⁾	96.9 ⁽¹⁴⁴⁾	75.7 ⁽²⁰⁴⁾	100.0 ⁽³³⁾	96.5 ^{(1, 089)}	-	1.7 ^{(2, 245)}	-	24.9 ^{(3, 571)}	28.4 ^{(3, 715)}
Madagascar	96.8 ⁽⁵³¹⁾	26.8 ⁽²²⁶⁾	80.6 ⁽⁷⁾	40.4 ⁽⁷⁶⁴⁾	87.6 ⁽⁸⁷⁾	99.6 ⁽⁶⁹⁾	97.4 ⁽²⁶³⁾	33.1 ^{(5, 056)}	1.1 ⁽⁵³⁰⁾	-	33.9 ^{(6, 005)}	35.0 ^{(6, 769)}
Nigeria	91.8 ⁽²⁵⁵⁾	80.0 ⁽¹⁹⁾	98.7 ⁽¹¹⁾	89.2 ⁽²⁸⁵⁾	91.4 ⁽⁴⁰⁵⁾	99.5 ⁽⁴⁰⁹⁾	95.6 ^{(1, 031)}	3.8 ^{(2, 141)}	2.5 ^{(1, 164)}	70.2 ⁽²¹⁾	25.7 ^{(5, 171)}	26.6 ^{(5, 456)}
Uganda	95.4 ⁽⁵²⁵⁾	39.8 ⁽⁹⁰⁾	88.6 ⁽¹¹⁾	69.6 ⁽⁶²⁶⁾	96.2 ⁽²⁰⁸⁾	99.3 ⁽⁹⁷⁾	96.4 ⁽³⁹⁸⁾	0.4 ^{(3, 747)}	0.0 ⁽¹⁹¹⁾	-	13.9 ^(4.641)	17.0 ^{(5, 267)}
Zambia	97.4 ⁽¹⁶⁵⁾	-	100.0 ⁽¹⁶⁾	97.8 ⁽¹⁸¹⁾	92.3 ⁽³⁴⁾	100.0 ⁽⁵⁰⁾	76.5 ⁽¹⁶⁵⁾	3.7 ^{(1, 946)}	0.4 ⁽⁹⁹⁷⁾	14.7 ⁽⁵⁾	6.3 ^{(3, 197)}	9.5 ^{(3, 378)}

¹In Benin the drug store category was deemed redundant as, strictly, there were no unregulated private-sector medicine vendors operating from formal structures (such as permanent buildings). In Benin, such medicine selling outlets should be registered and appear on the list of pharmacies. Unregulated vendors do operate however, often in markets, and were thus captured by the market stall and market shop classifications. In the DRC, grocery stores, as defined for all other countries, were very rare. In the DRC and Zambia, community health workers were not targeted for inclusion due to difficulties in ascertaining their presence in the clusters. In Benin, community health workers were not formally included in the Ministry of Health structure at the time of data collection [25]. It is expected that community health workers will be included in later survey rounds, as their numbers increase and as the Ministry of Health makes moves to include them explicitly in national policy [26].

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