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Table 3 Sources of medicines for the management of recent illness in children

From: Assessing malaria control in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana through repeated surveys using the RBM tools

 

Survey period

Source of medicines

2000

2003

 

N = 184 %

N = 185 %

Herbs at Home

18.9

11.5

Clinic/Hospital

18.4

39.3

Drug Store

60.4

24.6

Left over medicine

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23.5

Herbalist/Traditional Healer

0.9

1.1

Other

1.4

0.0