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Table 4 Respondents’ knowledge about transmission, prevention and treatment

From: Malaria indicator survey 2009, South Sudan: baseline results at household level

Respondents’ awareness

Residency

Region

Total

Rural

Urban

Upper Nile

Bahr el Ghazal

Equatoria

 

Malaria transmitted by mosquito bite

53.7%

73.5%

53.3%

60.4%

60.2%

58.0%

(95% CI: 51.9–55.5)

(95% CI: 71.9–75.0)

(95% CI: 51.5–55.1)

(95% CI: 58.7–62.1)

(95% CI: 58.5–62.0)

(95% CI: 56.2–59.8)

Sleeping under a mosquito nets to prevent malaria

29.8%

50.5%

30.0%

28.0%

43.1%

34.2%

(95% CI: 28.2–31.5)

(95% CI: 48.7–52.3)

(95% CI: 28.4–31.7)

(95% CI: 26.4–29.6)

(95% CI: 41.4–44.9)

(95% CI: 32.5–35.9)

Taking preventive medicine to avoid malaria

13.3%

7.4%

7.7%

20.9%

8.6%

12%

(95% CI: 12.1–14.5)

(95% CI: 6.5–8.4)

(95% CI: 6.8–8.7)

(95% CI: 19.5–22.4)

(95% CI: 7.7–9.7)

(95% CI: 10.9–13.2)

Taking the right anti-malaria as treatment

37.8%

54.2%

43.2%

34.1%

44.7%

41.3%

(95% CI: 36.1–39.5)

(95% CI: 52.4–56.0)

(95% CI: 41.5–45.0)

(95% CI: 32.8 –36.2)

(95% CI: 42.9–46.5)

(95% CI: 39.6–43.1)

  1. N = number, F = Frequency.